Gregory Kornbluh
Assistant Marketing Manager
Harvard University Press
Colleen Lanick
Publicity
Harvard University Press
Stephen T Asma
Professor of Philosophy
Columbia College Chicago
Jedediah Purdy
Professor of Law
Duke University
Jennifer Mittelstadt
Associate professor, political history
Rutgers state university of New York
Shane O’Mara
Professor of Experimental Brain Research
Trinity College Dublin
Christopher Jones
Historian
Arizona State University
David J Silverman
Professor of History
George Washington University
Benjamin G Martin
Historian
Uppsala University
Rami Gabriel
Associate Professor of Psychology
Columbia College Chicago
Jack Schneider
Assistant Professor, Education
University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Anthropocene fever
The Anthropocene idea has been embraced by Earth scientists and English professors alike. But how useful is it?
Jedediah Purdy
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Economics
Welfare’s last stand
Long in retreat in the US, the welfare state found a haven in an unlikely place – the military, where it thrived for decades
Jennifer Mittelstadt
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Mood and emotion
The interrogator’s soul
An ordinary person becomes a torturer with surprising ease. The hard part comes when it’s time to be human again
Shane O’Mara
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History of technology
New tech benefits the elite only until the people demand more
Christopher Jones
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Global history
Guns, empires and Indians
Multilateral imperial politics triggered an indigenous arms race and led to the violent transformation of Native America
David J Silverman
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Work
Trust me with your money
It takes diplomacy, anthropology and psychology to serve the world’s super-rich. But only trust opens their purse strings
Brooke Harrington
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History
‘European culture’ is an invented tradition
Benjamin G Martin
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History
The Malmedy trial: how the truth trumped fake torture stories
Steven P Remy
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Education
Private schools are anti-democratic. Can they be redeemed?
Jack Schneider
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Human evolution
United by feelings
Universal emotions are the deep engine of human consciousness and the basis of our profound affinity with other animals
Stephen T Asma & Rami Gabriel