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Podcast When the Bombs Stopped
July 16, 2025
In When the Bombs Stopped, Erin Lin investigates the consequences of the US bombing campaign across postconflict Cambodia.
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Essay The public lives of private diaries
July 15, 2025
In 1959 I kept a diary. An image of a pensive, green-uniformed Girl Scout with pencil poised at the corner of her mouth dominated the puffy plastic cover of the small book. Instinctively I knew that the lock and key were more an invitation than a deterrent, that because my diary was private, people would want to read it.
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Essay Bernd Roeck on The World at First Light
July 15, 2025
The cultural epoch we know as the Renaissance emerged at a certain time and in a certain place. Why then and not earlier? Why there and not elsewhere? Historian Bernd Roeck explores the cultural and historical preconditions that enabled the European Renaissance.
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Space travel for armchair astronauts
July 14, 2025
Humanity has long contemplated the mysteries of the night sky. From ancient stargazers to modern astrophysicists, our journey to understand the cosmos has been one of awe, curiosity, and discovery. Exploring topics from black holes to the Big Bang, to the search for habitable planets, our special 鈥淪pace Exploration Day鈥� reading list illuminates humanity鈥檚 exploration of space鈥攆rom the scientific to the philosophical.
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Video In dialogue: What questions should we be asking about immigration right now?
July 10, 2025
Immigration remains one of the most polarizing issues in public discourse, sparking intense debates over ethics, economics, and national identity. We asked Irene Vega and Asad L. Asad to reflect on what questions we should be asking about immigration at this moment in history.
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Video Hilary Holladay on The Power of Adrienne Rich
July 09, 2025
A major American writer, thinker, and activist, Adrienne Rich (1929鈥�2012) transformed herself from a traditional, Radcliffe-educated lyric poet and married mother of three sons into a path-breaking lesbian-feminist author of forceful, uncompromising prose as well as poetry.
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Essay The bombs that didn鈥檛 go off
July 07, 2025
Despite their years of experience and hard work, Lom and Leang are failing at small-scale commercial production. Why are these smart and hard-working farmers in one of the most fertile areas in the country tallying so many losses, unable to clear their share of agricultural profits?
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Essay Ridicule through time
July 07, 2025
Satire has the power to embarrass, humiliate, appal, excruciate, and amuse its many different audiences, but what has its history been?
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Reading List Summer listening
July 01, 2025
Just in time for summer lounging, we invite you to browse聽a聽selection of our audiobooks, brought to you聽through our publishing program, 91桃色 Audio.
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Podcast The Insiders鈥� Game
June 30, 2025
Tracing presidential decisions about the use of force from the Cold War through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Elizabeth N. Saunders reveals how the elite politics of war are a central feature of democracy. The Insiders鈥� Game shifts the focus of democratic accountability from the voting booth to the halls of power.
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Interview Ilana Horwitz on The Entrepreneurial Scholar
June 25, 2025
In the increasingly competitive world of academia, simply mastering your discipline is no longer enough to guarantee career success or personal fulfillment.
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Essay Elephant graveyards
June 25, 2025
In February 2024, a study published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa reported on an intriguing finding: five corpses of Asian elephant calves had been found buried within irrigation drains of various tea plantations in northern Bengal, India.
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