Brainwashing—A Bubbe-meise?
August 24, 2021
Joel E. Dimsdale— When I tell people I am interested in brainwashing, I get mixed responses. “Isn’t that kind of a stale, musty topic—Communists, bad science, and all that stuff?”… READ MORE
Category: Social Science
Becoming Organic in the Himalayas
August 13, 2021
Shaila Seshia Galvin— These days, the word organic typically conjures notions of food that is natural, pure, and ecologically produced. Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of organic agriculture,… READ MORE
Bonds of Womanhood
May 12, 2021
Nancy F. Cott— As family-centered production gave ground to market-oriented production and individual wage earning, school-teaching became a more important financial resource for young women. Both common schools and private… READ MORE
China and the Fate of Taiwan
January 26, 2021
Bill Hayton– The fate of Taiwan, an island at the mouth of the South China Sea equidistant between China, Japan, and the Philippines, has returned to the top of the… READ MORE
An Evergreen Politics: Representations of Women in the Posters of the Medu Art Ensemble
December 8, 2020
Antawan I. Byrd and Felicia Mings— In South Africa separate and unequal access to education, health, and economic opportunity long predated the 1948 implementation of apartheid law—as did resistance to… READ MORE
Pandemic Grief
September 3, 2020
Dorothy P. Holinger— A friend recently told me, “I’m irritable, sad, and I get mad so easily. I can’t seem to get anything done. I don’t know what’s the matter… READ MORE
Getting Lost in the Wilderness in the Digital Age
August 24, 2020
Jon T. Coleman— I was born in Boulder, Colorado, in the Age of Aquarius. My little sister arrived two years later, on the second anniversary of Earth Day. Geography and… READ MORE
Don’t Call Me Angry
July 14, 2020
Barbara H. Rosenwein— We are tearing our body politic in two, and one reason why is that we simplify the idea of anger. We’ve all seen the headlines: “Global Anger… READ MORE
Hannah Arendt on Zionism
July 13, 2020
Susie Linfield— It’s a pleasant day in the summer of 2013, and I sit with a Jewish-Israeli intellectual in a lively Tel Aviv café. She is a member of the… READ MORE
A Conversation with Trudier Harris on Bigger: A Literary Life