This non-exhaustive reading list discusses the origins of affirmative action, the question of race vs. class, and the effects of meritocracy.

In our final security studies column, our columnist posits that security as a permanent mode of government is actually making Americans less secure.

According to the extramission theory of vision, our eyes send out beams of elemental fire that spread, nerve like, to create the visual field.

In the wake of the college admissions scandal, scholars go back to the drawing board to answer this most central question.

The Chipko activists of 1970s and ‘80s India saved their forests by calling attention to the deep interdependence between humans and the natural world.

She was a notable anarchist thinker and speaker, but history has largely forgotten Voltairine de Cleyre.

In the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, people of Mexican ancestry were the target of intense racist violence.

Inge Lehmann was the seismologist and mathematician who figured out what the Earth's core was actually made of.

Well-researched stories from Wired, Pacific Standard, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Conservation efforts have led to increased crocodile populations in areas like the Philippines. It's great news for the crocs. Not so much for the people.