Audacity and Gaslights: Empowering or Zombifying Citizens?
Political scientists Eric Beerbohm and Ryan W. Davis consider how citizens can protect against gaslighting while staying open to audacious ideas of change.
Women Are Reclaiming Their Place in Baseball
Momentum continues to build in the movement to put women back where they belong: on the baseball diamond.
Dogs of the Moscow Metro
The public attitude toward the adventurous dogs who have mastered the Moscow metro system has roots in an egalitarian Soviet culture.
Privileged Poor vs. Doubly Disadvantaged
Attendance at elite high schools can shift the practices of college students from disadvantaged backgrounds to being closer to those of middle-class students.
Justice in Baltimore
In an atypical case, a white policeman was convicted of killing a Black man at a private house party.
How to Govern Like a Mongol
The leaders of the Mongol empire never abandoned their nomadic lifestyles, but they created organizational structures capable of ruling a huge part of the world.
How Roy Orbison’s Repertoire Shaped David Lynch’s Films
Drawing on the nostalgic feelings evoked by Orbison's music, Lynch added new layers to the cinematic traditions of film noir.
Was Carl Linnaeus Bad at Drawing?
Linnaeus has often been thought of as a poor artist, but visualization was a core element of his analytical tool set.
Creating a Bengali Cuisine
A rising middle class built up the notion of a distinct Bengali way of eating that claimed ancient origins while also incorporating European cooking styles.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Authoritarianism
Is the global state system in crisis, with authoritarianism, nationalism, populism, and illiberalism running amok?