Rodrigo Nunes’s new book explores what Brazil’s far right can teach us about the fundamental motivations of the far right ...

Newspapers, illustrated journals, posters, and postcards turned the Dreyfus Affair into the first modern media event of the ...

In October 1899, Parisians could purchase a large color lithograph depicting a grotesque human-pig hybrid, complete with ...

Nancy Folbre explores the politics of care work and future of the industry in her latest book, Making Care Work.

We all like to see where we are going but sometimes need to step into the dark. Consider a slightly revised version of the Parable of the Streetlight: An economist is searching for lost keys under a ...

For the past 50 years, Texas has been a GOP stronghold. Despite the good efforts of figures such as Beto O’Rourke, Barbara Jordan, and Ann Richards, the state has remained firmly in the grip of big ...

In a piece recently published in the New York Times under the title “Should We Cancel Aristotle?,” Agnes Collard, a philosopher at the University of Chicago, argues that “Aristotle did not merely ...

When the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the delegates had created. His reply—“A republic, if you can keep it”—was no mere quip from an ...

Associate Professor of Urban Studies at The New School for Public Engagement ...

I’m giving my right foot a pep talk. My left foot has been rolling the skateboard backward and forward over asphalt concrete. I take one deep, confidence-building breath before finally forcing myself ...

Failed witnessing: The Drowned and the Saved: The pivotal function of the moral third in relation to collective trauma is constituted by the acknowledgment of violation by the others who serve as ...