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October 30, 2024
Poor Things
For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dicken…
October 27, 2024
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
Economics sometimes feels like a physics–so sturdy, so objective, and so immutable. Yet, behind every clean number or eye-popping graph, there is usua…
October 27, 2024
How to Tell When We Will Die
The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding…
October 26, 2024
Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools for Online Learning
Teaching, training, and gathering online has become a global norm since 2020. Restorative practitioners have risen to the challenge to shift restorati…
October 22, 2024
Behavioural Public Policy in Australia
Max Weber once remarked that bureaucracy’s power comes from its massing of expert and factual knowledges. It amasses this power, in part, by keeping m…
October 22, 2024
Smooth City
In cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreading rapidly: an ever-increasing push toward efficiency, sanitization, surveillance and the …
October 22, 2024
Lifehouse
In Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire (Verso, 2024), Adam Greenfield presents a compelling vision for collective resilience in an …
October 20, 2024
Resigned Activism
Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and …
October 18, 2024
Some White Folks
There is racial inequality in America, and some people are distressed over it while others are not. Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Symp…
October 18, 2024
Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City
In the space of about two decades, five major parks were proposed, designed, and created in Paris. Some emerged from competitions between professional…
October 17, 2024
You Can't Teach That!
Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented effo…
October 12, 2024
Killed by a Traffic Engineer
In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continue…
October 12, 2024
Relinquished
Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the otherwise partisa…
October 9, 2024
Charging Forward
A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy. California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health condition…
October 8, 2024
Suspect Citizens
We recently marked the 50th Anniversary of Terry vs. Ohio, the US Supreme Court case that dramatically expanded the scope under which agents of the st…
October 2, 2024
The Cities We Need
An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging. Where would you take some…
October 2, 2024
The Migrant's Jail
Today, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37,000 migrants each night. To do so, they rely on, and pay for, the use of …
September 30, 2024
Times Square Remade
What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of character, the…
September 30, 2024
The Power of the Badge
The image of the sheriff is deeply embedded in American culture – from pacifist Jimmy Stewart in Destry Rides Again and gun averse Roy Scheider in Jaw…
September 29, 2024
Bicycle
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle prom…