Speculative Fiction: Beyond a Novel’s Entertainment Value
The classroom is a place to equip students to better understand the world as it was and is. Speculative fiction can help.
Speculative Fiction: A Reading List
Speculative fiction, from Afrofuturism to Star Wars, offers students tools and methods for analyzing social movements, power structures, and utopian thinking.
The Reichstag Building Rises
Built at the end of the 1800s and rebuilt a century later, Berlin’s Reichstag building has proven a malleable symbol of political and social values.
Parmesan, Nanotech, and Doing the Twist
Well-researched stories from Nursing Clio, Mongabay, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
From Neoliberalism to Trumpism
The neoliberal politics that developed in the 1970s created financial instability and fragmented cultural markets, helping to pave the way for Trumpism.
Urgent Notification: It’s Time to Play Cross Reference
This month’s crossword puzzle kindly requests your attention.
Eighteenth-Century Takes on Basic Income
Universal basic income has gotten some serious twenty-first-century play, but the idea is hardly new.
Demonizing Immigrants in the 1880s
American newspapers portrayed members of immigrant groups as potential anarchists, linking the ideology to other anxieties and stereotypes about foreigners.
Politicizing Intelligence: Nixon’s Man at the CIA
James R. Schlesinger was only head of the CIA for six months, but he nevertheless ranks as the least popular director in the agency’s history.
What Did the COVID Pandemic Do to Our Minds?
The pandemic’s transformation of daily lives around the world led to a loss of the bodily feeling of social trust across entire communities at once.