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Soviet Blocks
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The Hypocrisy Trap
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September 28, 2026
The Player and the Played
A provocative examination of the ways our economy has been rigged by financialization, and the importance of games to our dangerous political moment. …
September 16, 2026
Embodied Intelligence
Embodied Intelligence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Natural, Artificial, and Hybrid Systems (MIT Press, 2026) explores a radical transformation t…
September 13, 2026
Enjoyment Is Breaking News
Why we crave enjoyment from news, how our news use divides us, and what we can do to create better news and more informed citizens. TikTok. Short-form…
September 8, 2026
Nary a Horse Left Standing
In Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City (MIT Press, 2026), Dr. Lee …
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The Carbon Wave
They were perhaps an unlikely trio: professor Leah Stokes, the policy wonk Sonia Aggarwal in the White House, and the DC insider Adrian Deveny in the …
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August 24, 2026
The Military Entertainment Complex
The Military Entertainment Complex: Chimurenga Afrosonic Making of Zimbabwe (MIT Press, 2026) by Dr. Mhoze Chikowero is the story of the making of pos…
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The Land of Happiness
The Land of Happiness: How the Japanese Department Store Visualized Modern Life (MIT Press, 2026) explores the far-reaching influence of the Japanes…
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The Inner Passage
Some of the earliest canals in colonial America, referred to as the Inner Passage, were constructed by enslaved people living in the Lowcountry of Sou…
July 21, 2026
Thresholds of Digital Gameplay
Contemporary digital gameplay is only accessible by navigating an ecosystem of interfaces that support its computational nature. Account logins, contr…
July 19, 2026
Expecting Inequity
An unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in reproductive healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substan…
July 17, 2026
SimPolitics
This book is available open access. For more than six decades, the public has been promised that computers will revolutionize politics, both nati…
July 15, 2026
Private Power and Democracy's Decline
Today I'm speaking with Mordecai Kurz, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University. We are discussing his latest book, Private …
July 14, 2026
Technothriller
Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination (MIT Press, 2026) is the first dedicated examination of popular movies classified as “thrillers” tha…
June 17, 2026
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There is no alternative. The End of History. Climate Apocalypse. It seems that our contemporary moment is defined by the idea that things can only…
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Somebody Should Do Something
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Unlimited
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