Rebecca Coffey

Rebecca Coffey

Rebecca Coffey is a science and culture journalist (Scientific American, Discover Magazine, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Vermont Public Radio, PsychologyToday.com, the book Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings, and the essay collection Science and Lust). She is also a humorist (the book Nietzsche’s Angel Food Cake: And Other Recipes for the Intellectually Famished) and a novelist (Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story). More info is at RebeccaCoffey.com.

Emma and Charles Darwin

Natural Science

Darwin in Love

Charles Darwin, who of all people should have known better, married his first cousin. Did his love for Emma color his later works?

Editors' Picks

Science & Technology

Can We Build a Better Facebook?

Is it time to turn our back on Facebook? And if so, what social network could possibly replace it?

Education & Society

Jews vs. the “Judeo-Christian Tradition”

Since the 1930s, the idea of a “Judeo-Christian tradition” has been used in American politics, but some Jews have always taken issue with the entire concept.

Verbatim: Fredric Jameson

Marxist cultural critic Fredric Jameson offered a philosophy of late capitalism that gave us a language for talking about globalization and the end of modernism.

Politics & History

The Genocide Before the Shoah

For a century, Jews in Turkey have maintained a strategic silence when it comes to recognizing the Armenian genocide. Could that be changing?

Lost Literacies Strips Down the Dawn of Comics

In his new book, literary historian Alex Beringer demonstrates how the birth of the genre of printed comic long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages.