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a global intellectual commons
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Literature
Against Storytelling
December 9, 2025
Miriam Rasch
Freedom of Speech
The Words We Learn to Fear
December 4, 2025
Maria B. Olujic
History
Honest Truths From Wrongful Deaths
December 3, 2025
Jeremy Varon
Genocide
Attacks on Women’s Bodies Reveal the Logic of Genocide in Sudan
December 2, 2025
Ayotunde Giwa
Features
The Internet
Joanna Walsh’s E-Elegy
December 10, 2025
Eva Szilardi-Tierney
Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters
offers a remembrance of posts past
Film
Paolo Sorrentino on his new movie,
La Grazia
December 8, 2025
Mitchell Abidor
and
Paolo Sorrentino
An interview with the Italian film director on ordinariness, doubt, and jealousy at the heart of his new film
Latest
Literature
Against Storytelling
December 9, 2025
Miriam Rasch
Freedom of Speech
The Words We Learn to Fear
December 4, 2025
Maria B. Olujic
History
Honest Truths From Wrongful Deaths
December 3, 2025
Jeremy Varon
Genocide
Attacks on Women’s Bodies Reveal the Logic of Genocide in Sudan
December 2, 2025
Ayotunde Giwa
Podcasts
The Ostriches: Part III
November 12, 2025
The Ostriches: Part II
October 29, 2025
The Trump Administration’s War on Venezuelan Migrants
October 24, 2025
The Ostriches: Part I
October 15, 2025
The Democrats and Immigration
July 30, 2025
A Quiet Border and the End of Asylum?
July 21, 2025
What’s Happening in Los Angeles?
June 24, 2025
Music
Music
The Politics of Music and Motorcycles in Indonesia
June 25, 2025
Rachmi Diyah Larasati
Music
God Bless Perverts
June 4, 2025
Mikayla Emerson
Music
The Blessings of K-Pop
January 23, 2025
Abha Deshmukh
Music
Election Anxiety Mixtape
November 5, 2024
Alex Rossen
Music
What Courtney Love Knows About Taylor Swift
October 9, 2024
Shelley Martin
The Internet
Democracy
Is Social Media Destroying Democracy—Or Giving It to Us Good and Hard?
October 28, 2025
Dan Williams
The Internet
From the Sewer of the Internet, a Slang Surfaces
October 7, 2024
Jake Neuffer
History
Why the Study of History Belongs to the Public
January 17, 2024
Rose Botaish
The Internet
Why I Joined Twitter Blue
February 2, 2023
Claire Potter
The Internet
The Fall of Facebook
October 5, 2021
Heather Cox Richardson
Higher Education
Education
Should Universities Just Leave?
October 23, 2025
Anastasija Mladenovska
Education
What If Using AI Isn’t Cheating?
September 22, 2025
Claire Potter
Higher Education
The Burned-Over District: The Horses of Instruction and the Tygers of Wrath
September 11, 2025
Jonathan Veitch
Higher Education
Academic Freedom in a Time of Destruction: Reconsidering Extramural Speech
September 4, 2025
Judith Butler
Higher Education
Paying for College Was Already Stressful. Then Came Trump and DOGE.
April 16, 2025
Center for New York City Affairs
and
Kim Nauer
Migration
Migration
Immigration Is Imperative
September 25, 2025
Purushottam Bhandare
and
Katerina Canyon
What’s Lost Along the Polish-Belarusian border
June 26, 2025
Inga Hajdarowicz
Migration
Asylum and the Hierarchy of Suffering
February 27, 2025
Charlotte Soehner
and
Olivia Woldemikael
Migration
Border Time
February 24, 2025
Victoria Hattam
Migration
Migrants Are Parents and Children
October 31, 2024
Mónica Salmón Gómez
Psyche
Sex & Gender
“Masc Only”
September 30, 2025
Yann Phesans
Literature
Electronic Music’s Savior Complex
June 16, 2025
Alexandra Chaves
Capitalism
We’re Going to Fort Knox to Touch the Real
May 20, 2025
Justin Joque
Psyche
Whitman, Spiritual Decay, and the Last Light of American Faith
May 14, 2025
Yahia Lababidi
Psyche
Martha Stewart’s Tripartite Soul
April 14, 2025
Anabelle Helsell
Media
Media
A Martyr and a Meme
September 17, 2025
Benjamin Andrew Schupmann
Media
Horror and Humor in Hulu’s
The Other Black Girl
February 26, 2024
Kelby Clark
Media
Being Online
November 21, 2023
Noam Yuran
Media
Has the Press Corps Learned Nothing?
November 9, 2021
John Stoehr
Media
The Biggest Media Bias That No One Is Talking About
September 22, 2021
John Stoehr