A writer and scholar, Gil Z. Hochberg is the Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and ...

Mila Burns’s “Dictatorship Across Borders” offers a new history of surveillance, repression, and exile in Pinochet’s Chile ...

Magazine and newspaper criticism] have been, as Dan has described, disembedded from their former professional, conglomerate, ...

As genocide unfolds in Gaza, we turn to platforms that profit from our witness. Are we fueling the very systems we seek to ...

From the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 to the advent of Gorbachev’s glasnost in the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union was ...

The proliferating forms and functions of artificial intelligence have loosened many lips. Across the theoretical and the political spectrum, initial reactions ranged from despair to anticipatory ...

These iconic moments reveal how deeply football and politics shape each other in Argentina. The interplay between politics and football is examined in two recent books, which explore how Argentine ...

What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 13th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black History, Literary Fiction, Print/Screen, ...

What were the books of 2024 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 12th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black History, Literary Fiction, Borderlands, ...

In this series commissioned by Catherine S. Ramírez and A. Naomi Paik, contributors examine the legacy of the Immigration Act of 1924 and the simultaneous launching of the Border Patrol, which, ...

In the latest installment of our partnership with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Alison Gopnik sits down with Ted Chiang to discuss the profound ways that humans care for ...

Thinking in public demands knowledge, eloquence, and courage. In this interview series, we hear from public scholars about how they found their path and how they communicate to a wide audience. A ...