George Orwell’s canonical work, 1984, warns of a future in which the all-powerful ‘Big Brother’ dictates truth by rewriting history so that only one version of the world can exist. Orwell frames this dystopian dictatorship as attempting to dilu...
Earlier this year, hundreds of families flocked to a newly opened playground and park in Waltham, Massachusetts. Children soared on the swings, flew down the slides, and competed in mini-golf – unaware of the land’s shamefully buried history. As ...
Brown University Professor Emeritus Peter Howitt, co-architect of the theory of sustained economic growth through creative destruction and co-recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, discusses the journey that led him from sorting wool...
Amtrak has long been a political lightning rod. Founded in 1971 as a way for the government to subsidize America’s declining railways, the quasi-corporation, quasi-government entity has recently drawn attention not for its hemorrhaging of cash but ...
Amtrak has long been a political lightning rod. Founded in 1971 as a way for the government to subsidize America’s declining railways, the quasi-corporation, quasi-government entity has recently drawn attention not for its hemorrhaging of cash but ...
The past two months have been especially traumatic for Europe’s approximately 1.4 million Jews. On February 15th, a gunman attacked a Jewish synagogue in Copenhagen that was celebrating a bar mitzvah, killing a Jewish security guard. In January, fo...
The past two months have been especially traumatic for Europe’s approximately 1.4 million Jews. On February 15th, a gunman attacked a Jewish synagogue in Copenhagen that was celebrating a bar mitzvah, killing a Jewish security guard. In January, fo...
The process by which artists cycle through neighborhoods of American cities has become so prevalent it has its own name: the SoHo effect. Historically, poor artists venture into areas where no one else will — typically, these areas are already popu...
The process by which artists cycle through neighborhoods of American cities has become so prevalent it has its own name: the SoHo effect. Historically, poor artists venture into areas where no one else will — typically, these areas are already popu...
This past week, MSBNC announced it would be canceling both the Reid Report and Ronan Farrow Daily, two of its daytime shows that had been attracting infinitesimal audiences as of late. The network, long viewed as a progressive alternative to Fox News...
This past week, MSBNC announced it would be canceling both the Reid Report and Ronan Farrow Daily, two of its daytime shows that had been attracting infinitesimal audiences as of late. The network, long viewed as a progressive alternative to Fox News...
It isn’t unusual for the president’s words to be analyzed and criticized. The propensity of Americans to routinely invoke their First Amendment rights against their chief executive makes it seem like a national pastime. As the leader of the natio...
It isn’t unusual for the president’s words to be analyzed and criticized. The propensity of Americans to routinely invoke their First Amendment rights against their chief executive makes it seem like a national pastime. As the leader of the natio...
On February 10, 2015, three college students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, were shot dead. Deah Barakat was a 23-year-old student at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry. His wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, was 21 years old and had ...
On February 10, 2015, three college students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, were shot dead. Deah Barakat was a 23-year-old student at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry. His wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, was 21 years old and had ...
Need to use a public restroom? If you live in Florida, that might soon be a criminal act, depending on who you are. On February 4th, Florida Representative Frank Artiles introduced HB583 in the state legislature, a bill that, if passed, would attempt...
Need to use a public restroom? If you live in Florida, that might soon be a criminal act, depending on who you are. On February 4th, Florida Representative Frank Artiles introduced HB583 in the state legislature, a bill that, if passed, would attempt...
Jonathan Chait’s recent article in New York Magazine asserts that “political correctness” is the downfall of political discourse. However, his argument ignores the important rise of identity politics and the corresponding shift in cultural view...
Jonathan Chait’s recent article in New York Magazine asserts that “political correctness” is the downfall of political discourse. However, his argument ignores the important rise of identity politics and the corresponding shift in cultural view...
Last February, Cornell University’s LGBTQ student group Direct Action to Stop Heterosexism (DASH) sent a letter to LGBTQ groups at Ivy League schools calling for a boycott of IvyQ. An inter-ivy conference for queer-identifying students, IvyQ hosts ...
Last February, Cornell University’s LGBTQ student group Direct Action to Stop Heterosexism (DASH) sent a letter to LGBTQ groups at Ivy League schools calling for a boycott of IvyQ. An inter-ivy conference for queer-identifying students, IvyQ hosts ...
As U.S. politicians and activists push towards a new era of immigration reform, they must consider America’s fastest growing population, Asian Americans, whose numbers increased from 12 million people in 2000 to 17 million in 2010. The Asian Americ...
As U.S. politicians and activists push towards a new era of immigration reform, they must consider America’s fastest growing population, Asian Americans, whose numbers increased from 12 million people in 2000 to 17 million in 2010. The Asian Americ...
Movies about the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are scarce when compared to the volume of World War I and II and Vietnam-era films. The ones that are have received a smaller reception (The Messenger, Brothers, Green Zone, Body of Lies), with a few excepti...
Movies about the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are scarce when compared to the volume of World War I and II and Vietnam-era films. The ones that are have received a smaller reception (The Messenger, Brothers, Green Zone, Body of Lies), with a few excepti...
This week, Slovaks voted on a referendum that would have banned same-sex marriage in the country as well as adoption by same-sex couples. A sizable majority approved of the legislation, but it failed because more than half of the population did not...
This week, Slovaks voted on a referendum that would have banned same-sex marriage in the country as well as adoption by same-sex couples. A sizable majority approved of the legislation, but it failed because more than half of the population did not...