“Earning to Give” Leads to Happiness
August 9, 2016
Peter Singer— In 2013 an article in the Washington Post featured Jason Trigg, an MIT computer science graduate working in finance and giving half of his salary to the Against… READ MORE
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How Seasoned Earthenware Cooking Pots are Holding Back Women’s Education: Iranian Satire
August 2, 2016
Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda; Translated by Janet Afary; John R. Perry— I’ve often wondered how it is that, with all the emphasis by prophets and sages and the great men of the… READ MORE
How the Kennedys Succeeded in America’s Class Blindspot
July 26, 2016
Godfrey Hodgson— Kennedy was the first president not just of the age of national media but of the age of national corporate business and national popular culture, whose centers were… READ MORE
Extra, Extra, Read all about Jacques the Jacobin
July 19, 2016
Janet Polasky— Jacques the Jacobin did not actually exist. His was a fictional account published in the most widely read of the multitude of new French newspapers, Les Révolutions de… READ MORE
The Price of the Carthaginian Policy in Greece
June 24, 2016
James K. Galbraith— In the United States we do not consider that there is such a thing as a people of Florida or Rhode Island or even of Texas, who… READ MORE
Why the Constitution Matters
September 17, 2015
Happy Constitution Day! In Why the Constitution Matters, Harvard Law professor Mark Tushnet poses a seemingly simple question and provides us with a thoroughly unexpected answer, forcing us to question… READ MORE
King’s Dream: Civil Rights and the History of Nonviolent Protest
August 28, 2014
On this day in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. gave what is widely hailed as the best political speech of the twentieth century. King famously departed from his prepared text… READ MORE
Austerity: Reading between the lines of the economic debate
July 28, 2014
In his sweeping new book, Austerity: the Great Failure, historian Florian Schui tackles the central economic debate sprung from the Great Recession: whether decreasing government spending will renew economic growth…. READ MORE
How to Give a Great Speech: A Master Class with Winston Churchill
June 25, 2014
Chances are good that you have been asked to speak in public before and will need to speak in public again. Giving a compelling speech is no easy task at… READ MORE
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