“We are the first generation that can predict the future of the world…We can also choose to shape the future.”—The Atlas of Global Conservation Today, 40 years after the first Earth Day, …
Read More >Today through Saturday, April 24, the Chicago Poetry Project is co-sponsoring The Truth and Life of Myth, a Robert Duncan Symposium. “The surety of the myth for the poet has such force …
Read More >Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, died a century ago today, but he is still publishing books. He wanted it that way—he specified that his full autobiography not be published for 100 years …
Read More >The American West was formed through the “making and defending and reclaiming of home places,” write Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken in Home Lands: How Women Made the West. The exhibit corresponding …
Read More >In this cross-post from his Media Myth Alert blog, W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong, addresses how the media fueled fears of a “crack baby generation”, and the damaging consequences …
Read More >“People look at ants as little mindless specks, and of course, from the top of a mountain…people look the same way”, says Mark Moffett, author of Adventures Among Ants, in this podcast. …
Read More >In this podcast, Peter Schrag, author of Not Fit for Our Society, talks to Chris Gondek about the history of immigration and nativism in America. He finds that nativist attitudes have persisted …
Read More >Bryant Simon, author of Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks, discusses the “Coffee Party” movement and argues for a return to the coffeehouse as a place for civic debate …
Read More >Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China, about China’s one-child rule, by Susan Greenhalgh, has recently won the Association for Asian Studies’ Joseph Levenson Book Prize for the Best Book …
Read More >Nature is full of surprises. Last week, researchers working in the Philippines confirmed that a giant tree-dwelling monitor lizard is a newly discovered species, Varanus bitatawa—a cousin of the Komodo dragon. Quietly …
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