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What's next for #MeToo? Rethinking the place for gender in politics and society with a look back to eighteenth-century France.
NANCY LUXON University of Minnesota Never in history have questions of gender and authority been so acute. One cannot discuss contemporary politics ...
Learning from youth about competitive school choice policy
BY KATE PHILLIPPOLoyola University Chicago’s School of Education It’s hard to miss academic competition these days. In 2019 alone, events abound. ...
Swede Hollow: The surprises and intrigue behind Ola Larsmo’s haunting story of a real place
BY OLA LARSMO I guess it was the silence that caught my imagination. It was very deep, in the middle of a bustling city. My wife, Rita, had spent an i ...
Suspects not Citizens: Criminalizing Muslims in the United States
BY NICOLE NGUYEN In 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. plowed his silver Dodge Charger into counter-protestors at the “Unite the Right” white supremacist ...
Swede Hollow: The surprises and intrigue behind Ola Larsmo’s haunting story of a real place
BY OLA LARSMO I guess it was the silence that caught my imagination. It was very deep, in the middle of a bustling city. My wife, Rita, had spent an i ...
Learning from youth about competitive school choice policy
BY KATE PHILLIPPOLoyola University Chicago’s School of Education It’s hard to miss academic competition these days. In 2019 alone, events abound. ...
Understanding the power behind the prison system
BY BRETT STORYAuthor of Prison Land In June, the federal government announced that it will be rescinding funding for a new federal penitentiary in Let ...
When to Name Names
BY JACK EL-HAI Early in my writing of The Lost Brothers I considered an ethical question: In telling the story of the 68-year-old case of three young ...
Growing Up in Westeros: Breaking the Wheel of Fantasy Expectations
BY MARIA SACHIKO CECIRE The tendency to set up—and then dash—the expectations of fantasy has always been crucial to HBO’s Game of Thrones and i ...
Turbulent Thoughts of a Peaceful Mind
BY BJØRN EKEBERG "Who am I? A vortex. A dispersal that comes undone." —Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics An extraordinary philosopher of scienc ...