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The cover of "Martian Time-Slip," featuring a man tending to a farm on Mars.

“Multiple Worlds Vying to Exist”: Philip K. Dick and Palestine

A critique of colonialism from Martian science fiction.
by Jonathan Lethem via The Paris Review on November 14, 2024
Charles Fort.

In Praise of the Paranormal Curiosity of Charles Fort, Patron Saint of Cranks

On the porous, ever-shifting boundaries between science and speculation.
by Ed Simon via Literary Hub on June 10, 2024

A People’s Obituary of Henry Kissinger

For decades, Kissinger kept the great wheel of American militarism spinning ever forward.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on November 30, 2023
Police and bystanders at night.

Do Cartels Exist?

A revisionist view of the drug wars.
by Rachel Nolan via Harper’s on June 20, 2023
A sign in Alabama reading "Thank God We Are Deplorable", 2018.

Christianity's Place in the Left and the Right

A conversation with historian David Hollinger about the rise of evangelicalism, the decline of mainline Protestantism, and the nature of America's secularism.
by David A. Hollinger, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Nation on March 29, 2023
Yellow book cover reading "The Dawn of Everything" in red text.

As Deep as it is Vast: An Introduction to "The Dawn of Everything" in Early America

A new book provides a framework that engages with “big history” or “deep history” while avoiding explanations that flirt with forms of determinism.
by Gordon Sayre, Robbie Ethridge, Keith Pluymers, Sean P. Harvey, Barbara Alice Mann, Daniel Richter via Commonplace on October 4, 2022
Hawaiian feathered war god.

In Defense of Presentism

The past does not speak to us; we speak for the past.
by David Armitage via Oxford University Press on January 13, 2022
Ink and watercolor portrait of John Rawls

John Rawls and Liberalism’s Selective Conscience

With its doctrine of fairness, A Theory of Justice transformed political philosophy. But what did it leave out? 
by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò via The Nation on November 27, 2021
QAnon proponent and Trump supporters

Bad Information

Conspiracy theories like QAnon are ultimately a social problem rather than a cognitive one. We should blame politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.
by Nicolas Guilhot via Boston Review on August 23, 2021

Why Historical Analogy Matters

If the idea of historical incommensurability is right, then analogical reasoning in history becomes an impossibility.
by Peter E. Gordon via New York Review of Books on January 7, 2020

How Media was Social in the 1790s

What would the French Revolution have looked like on Twitter?
by Jordan E. Taylor via The Panorama on September 3, 2019

‘Orientalism,’ Then and Now

Edward Said's Orientalism is still with us forty years after his influential book’s publication, but it is not the same as it was.
by Adam Shatz via New York Review of Books on May 20, 2019
Immigrants after their arrival in Ellis Island by ship in 1902.

Not So Evident

How experts and their facts created immigration restriction.
by Katherine Benton-Cohen via Perspectives on History on March 25, 2019

Where Does Truth Fit into Democracy?

In modern democracies, who gets to determine what counts as truth—an elite of experts or the people as a whole?
by David A. Bell via The Nation on January 24, 2019

Hollow Words

Exploring John Cleves Symmes Jr.’s obsession with a hollow Earth.
by Laura Leavitt via The Smart Set on January 7, 2019

Science’s Freedom Fighters

Why do Americans get so worked up by the basic assertion that all science is political?
by W. Patrick McCray via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 18, 2018
Jill Lepore

'The Academy Is Largely Itself Responsible for Its Own Peril'

On writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.
by Jill Lepore, Evan Goldstein via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 13, 2018

History for a Post-Fact America

A review of Jill Lepore's new book, which she has called the most ambitious single-volume American history written in generations.
by Alex Carp via New York Review of Books on October 19, 2018
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Zones of Doubt

What we can learn about trade policy from a misbegotten 19th century effort to quantify the chemical properties of wool.
by David Singerman on October 2, 2018

How Maps Reveal, and Conceal, History

What one scholar learned from writing an American history consisting of 100 maps.
by Susan Schulten via Process: A Blog for American History on September 13, 2018

Network Visualisations Show What We Can and What We May Know

On the intellectual history of the lines and arrows that have become a standard feature of the news media.
by Christopher Warren via Aeon on June 18, 2018

Dystopian Bodies

In her newest book, Barbara Ehrenreich attacks the "epidemic" of wellness.
by Niko Maragos via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 7, 2018

Natural History in Two Dimensions

What can making now tell us about the past? Or should the past remain untouched?
by Whitney Barlow Robles via Commonplace on January 1, 2018

Michel Foucault in Death Valley

Simeon Wade describes visiting Death Valley with Michel Foucault in 1975.
by Simeon Wade, Heather Dundas via Boom California on September 10, 2017

Constitutional Originalism and History

Does the most historically minded school of constitutional law push history aside?
by Jonathan Gienapp via Process: A Blog for American History on March 20, 2017
Scientists attend to banks of monitors at NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston in 1965.

Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard

Futuristic control rooms with endless screens of blinking data are proliferating in cities across the globe. Welcome to the age of Dashboard Governance.
by Shannon Mattern via Places Journal on March 1, 2015
An eraser erasing a drawing of man.

R.F.K., Jr., Anthony Fauci, and the Revolt Against Expertise

It used to be progressives who distrusted the experts. What happened?
by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on May 19, 2025
Image by Hans Glaser depicting a blood rain that supposedly occurred near Dinkelsbühl in Germany’s Franconia region in 1554.

Strange Gods: Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned

Rains of blood and frogs, mysterious disappearances, objects in the sky: these were the anomalies that fascinated Charles Fort in his Book of the Damned.
by Joshua Blu Buhs via The Public Domain Review on November 26, 2024
Séance with spirit manifestation, 1872, by John Beattie.

Immortalizing Words

Henry James, spiritualism, and the afterlife.
by Ashley C. Barnes via The Hedgehog Review on April 30, 2024
Digitally altered portrait of a man in a suit with his face pixelated, framed by computer windows.

What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes

Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on November 13, 2023
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