By Eric Porter, author of A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport For many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put …
Read More >By Ahmed White, author of Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers In the late 1910s and early 1920s, the Industrial Workers of the World was …
Read More >By Leigh Goodmark, author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism Sally McNeil, like many of the people featured in my new book, Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and …
Read More >By Matthew E. Kahn, author of Going Remote: How the Flexible Work Economy Can Improve Our Lives and Our Cities Before the COVID Shock, urban economists told a familiar “tale of two …
Read More >By Doug Meyer, author of Violent Differences: The Importance of Race in Sexual Assault against Queer Men This post was originally published on The Society Pages and is reposted here with permission. …
Read More >By Lawrence Kramer, author of Music and the Forms of Life The concept of life has a long and complicated history, but its modern version can be said to date to the late …
Read More >Kaveh Hemmat is Assistant Professor of History, Professional Faculty, in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Theology at Benedictine University. His research focuses on perceptions and representations of East Asia in premodern Islamicate …
Read More >By Reyhan Durmaz, author of Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond We all tell stories to create meaning. A far-gone event in a …
Read More >by David M. Freidenreich, author of Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy Antisemitism is becoming increasingly overt—and so too is its close relative, anti-Judaism. To respond and resist effectively, …
Read More >By Sara Ronis, author of Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia In the months leading up to this year’s midterm elections, a number of Republicans …
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