Reading List Books for understanding the US election August 09, 2024 Voting, both a fundamental civic duty and a hard-won right, is at the core of our democratic process. With election season upon us, delve into this list of books for understanding today’s increasingly complex election politics. Read More
Podcast The Last Human Job August 08, 2024 With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Long Live Queer Nightlife August 08, 2024 In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife. Read More
Podcast Sacred Foundations August 07, 2024 Anna Grzymała-Busse is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies at Stanford University, where she is also senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Her books include Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy (Princeton). Read More
Essay Working and investing as an ancient Roman August 03, 2024 Encountering the Romans in the marketplace and observing how they made a living allows us to discover how they negotiated the central questions of civilization. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Slouch August 02, 2024 In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students. Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Fire Is upon Us August 02, 2024 A remarkable story of race and the American dream, The Fire Is upon Us reveals the deep roots and lasting legacy of a conflict that continues to haunt our politics. Read More
Essay How did Romans manage the risks of childbirth? July 31, 2024 From weather forecasts to astrology substacks, many people today structure their daily lives with the help of predictive information. Fundamentally, this was also true for ancient Romans. Read More
Essay PUP Life: Meetings, memos, and coffee in the conservatory July 25, 2024 As the senior editor for social science books here in the European office, my role is to seek out the most exciting and important new book ideas and work with authors to help them develop their work into proposals and eventually books. Read More
Essay What’s Joe Biden’s role in politics now? July 24, 2024 In April 2020, when Joe Biden had effectively won his party’s nomination to challenge incumbent US President Donald Trump in the coming election and political commentators had begun to fret about both candidates’ ages, I consulted Plutarch of Chaeronea to get his advice about old men engaging in politics. Read More
Essay Auden in nature and history July 22, 2024 If you look at the volumes published so far in the Auden Critical Editions series, you’ll see that, with the exception of the Juvenilia (a unique kind of text), they feature book-length works. Read More
Podcast Hillbilly Highway July 22, 2024 Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. Read More
Reading List In celebration of the simple act of listening July 18, 2024 World Listening Day is an opportunity for all of us to pause and hone our awareness of the world around us and practice the art of listening. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Slow Burn July 17, 2024 It’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. R. Jisung Park encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that focuses less on the possibility of mass climate extinction in a theoretical future, and more on the everyday implications of climate change here and now. Read More
Essay Volatile waters, fluid histories July 12, 2024 It can be depressing these days to read about the state of the world’s water supplies. This is a global problem, but it is undoubtedly most acute in the so-called global south, where population is growing fastest and water infrastructures are least robust. As pressing as these challenges are today, they have a long history. Read More
