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Benjamin Winterhalter

Benjamin Winterhalter

Benjamin Winterhalter is a writer and editor based in Savannah, GA. His work has appeared in Salon, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Baffler, and elsewhere. He was formerly Features Editor at JSTOR Daily.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Politics & Government

The Madness of John Roberts

The Supreme Court’s pro-choice decision in June Medical Services v. Russo illustrates the Chief Justice's embattled relationship with precedent.
Emliie Chatelet, Anne Conway, and Mary Wollstonecraft
Education & Society

3 Women Philosophers of the Enlightenment

They shaped the history of Western philosophical thought. It's past time to recognize their contributions.
Walter Benn Michaels
Arts & Culture

Walter Benn Michaels: What’s His Deal?

The literary critic Walter Benn Michaels challenges the prevailing trends of postmodernist theory.
Jeremy Irons in Steven Soderbergh's "Kafka."
Arts & Culture

Franz Kafka’s The Trial—It’s Funny Because It’s True

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1977 ©Lynn Gilbert
Politics & Government

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Radical Project Isn’t Finished

A fiery advocate against gender discrimination, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s radicalism reveals itself in her argument for the Equal Rights Amendment.
What is health
Quick Question

What’s the Definition of Health?

The WHO’s definition has been the target of criticism in the medical literature since its first appearance in 1948.
Little Women movie
Arts & Culture

My Summer of Watching Little Women

What the author learned from her mother, a feminist academic doing a research project on film adaptations of Little Women.
James Bond
Arts & Culture

The Marketable Misogyny of James Bond

The attitudes reflected in the James Bond franchise are wildly out of touch with social reality.
Stanley Fish
Education

Stanley Fish’s Academic Clickbait

The “renegade” scholar Stanley Fish is really a bit dramatic.
Why Bother with OK Cupid
Education & Society

Don’t Fall in Love on OkCupid

More than a decade into OkCupid's existence, sociologists are finding that its widely touted algorithm doesn’t actually help us find romance.
Promo image from The X Files with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson
Arts & Culture

Reopening The X-Files: Is ESP Possible?

"Here I am again, Scully, up late pursuing this obsession with ESP." "It's a fraud, Mulder."
Nebula
Natural Science

I ❤ Physics: A Love Story

I could not bring myself to accept string theory’s claim, often presented as a scientific fact, that there are exactly 11 dimensions.
Illustration of the Cosmic order by Robert Fludd, the World Soul.
Politics & History

Let Panpsychism Expand Your Mind

An examination of panpsychism's history.
Photo of a young boy spending summer vacation with his two moms on the beach.
Education & Society

Should Sperm Donors Have Visitation Rights?

A lesbian couple from New Jersey now find their most intimate decisions at the center of a precedent-setting appeal about sperm donor visitation rights.

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