Daegan Miller
Writer
Madison, Wisconsin
Thomas Gieryn
Professor of Sociology
Indiana University Bloomington
Scott Samuelson
Associate Professor of Philosophy & the Humanities
Kirkwood Community College
Donald S Lopez Jr
Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies
University of Michigan
Jessica Riskin
Professor of History of Science
Stanford University
Emily Baum
Associate Professor in History
University of California, Irvine
idea
History
A future just, green and free, under a tree named Karl Marx
Daegan Miller
idea
History of ideas
Suffering, not just happiness, weighs in the utilitarian calculus
Scott Samuelson
essay
Human rights and justice
Truth is also a place
Throughout history, people found truth at holy places. Now we build courts, labs and altars to be truth spots too
Thomas Gieryn
idea
Philosophy of religion
The Buddhist monk who became an apostle for sexual freedom
Donald S Lopez Jr
essay
History of science
Alive and ticking
The idea that nature is a humming, complex, clockwork machine has been around for centuries. Is it due for a revival?
Jessica Riskin
essay
History
Collective psychiatry
Chinese psychiatry remains committed to the political ideal of mental hygiene, long after its discrediting in the West
Emily Baum
essay
Sex and sexuality
The case of Norman Douglas
He was a literary lion and an infamous pederast: what might we learn from his life about monstrosity and humanity?
Rachel Hope Cleves