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The Age of Choice
Sophia Rosenfeld

Art in a State of Siege
Joseph Leo Koerner

The Tech Coup
Marietje Schaake

Erased
Patricia Owens

Ungoverning
Nancy L. Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead

Women Architects at Work
Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy

Animals, Robots, Gods
Webb Keane

Safe Havens for Hate
Tamar Mitts

Leonardo da Vinci
Stephen J. Campbell

What Might Be
Susan Sturm

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The Power of Cute
Simon May

Merchants of the Right
Jennifer Carlson

The Entanglement
Alva Noë

Hillbilly Highway
Max Fraser

On Elizabeth Bishop
Colm Tóibín

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Essay Paradoxical possibility: embracing anti-racism’s contradictions
February 19, 2025
Anti-racism work is paradoxical. It requires the capacity to straddle contradictory yet interdependent realities that seem irreconcilable but must and can both be navigated.
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Essay Bad Bunny, Puerto Rico, and public history
February 19, 2025
The evening before Three King’s Day, on January 6th, Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny released his sixth album DeBÍ TiRAR MaS FOTos (I Should Have Taken More Pictures). Instead of releasing highly produced videos, the artist's team worked with Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, author of “Puerto Rico: A National History,” to create historical slides that were launched alongside each of the seventeen tracks.
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Essay Emma Jung’s years of self-liberation
February 11, 2025
Emma Jung’s creative life is recorded in numerous handwritten notebooks and art portfolios, all of which lay undisturbed after her death in 1955. Until her documents in the family archive were systematically studied, she had not been thought of as a real contributor to the movement of analytical psychology, or as a full partner in her husband’s ground-breaking work.
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Podcast We Have Never Been Woke
February 22, 2025
Society has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, each tied to the rise of a new elite—the symbolic capitalists.
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Essay Celebrating Bird Photographer of the Year
February 22, 2025
Photographers from "Bird Photographer of the Year: Collection 9" tell the stories behind their selected shots.
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Essay How we make quasi-humans and super-humans
February 13, 2025
Are AI and robots pushing us over the edge toward some "post-human" utopia, or apocalyptic "singularity"? Things that define or challenge our intuitions about the boundaries of the human can be sources of trouble.
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