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Science & Nature

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Quantum Field Theory

Second in our series on new experiments at CERN.

Matthew Buckley

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Are Women the Silent Sex?

Getting women to participate in group decision-making takes more than superficial equality.

Tali Mendelberg, Christopher F. Karpowitz

Arts in Society, Race

"We Called That Touch"

In America, life at the edge of racial belonging is not so black and white.

Ed Pavlić

Arts in Society

Lillian Ross: Witness

Before there was New Journalism, there was Lillian Ross.

Jacqui Shine

Law & Justice, Race

The Roots of Black Incarceration

A nineteenth-century memoir sheds light on the origins of the modern prison.

Joy James

Science & Nature

The Search for New Physics at CERN

Are we on the verge of unsettling our most basic theory of the physical world?

Matthew Buckley

Arts in Society

Writing Under Surveillance

East German writer Wolfgang Hilbig on the surveillance state.

Tyler Curtis

Class & Inequality, Race

The Racist Dawn of Capitalism

Recent histories of slavery and capitalism ignore radical black scholarship.

Peter James Hudson

Arts in Society, Politics

Machinations of Wicked Men

Niall Ferguson’s protestations aside, Henry Kissinger was the quintessential foreign policy realist.

Jonathan Kirshner

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

The Sweet Life of Sidney Mintz

A tribute to one of the century’s great anthropologists and teachers.

Sarah Hill

Race, Reading Lists

Radical Political Action

A primer in the history and practice of radical black politics.

Derecka Purnell, Boston Review

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt's Beloved Radical

Crusading for black rights, women's equality, and gender non-conformity.

Kenneth W. Mack

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