Book Reviews
Outbreaks and Outcomes
Plagues thrive on more than just pathogens
by Graeme Wood | Monday, December 21, 2020
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History ·
Figuring Out Our Fourth Estate
Can democracy survive in the absence of agreed-upon facts?
by Scott Stossel | Thursday, December 10, 2020
An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press ·
Earning Our Daily Bread
Did early humans really have it easier than we do?
by Ellen Ruppel Shell | Monday, December 07, 2020
Work: A Deep History, From the Stone Age to the Age of Robots ·
Native Wisdom
A celebration of the rich spiritual imagination of tribal peoples
by Donald Worster | Monday, December 07, 2020
Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land ·
Power to the People
Looking back on a decade of revolutionary change
by Jason Sokol | Monday, December 07, 2020
The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights ·
Redefining Women’s Work
The relief of suffering was one means to a great end
by Danielle Ofri | Monday, December 07, 2020
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women—and Women to Medicine ·
Market Morality
The divine underpinnings of Western prosperity
by Michael Shermer | Monday, December 07, 2020
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism ·
Thought Experiment
Exploring the evolutionary origins of our brains
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas | Monday, December 07, 2020
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind ·
Satirist to the Galaxy
The war behind a writer’s words
by Anne Matthews | Wednesday, December 02, 2020
Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941–1945 ·
Indefensible Torture, Unfree Speech
What Censorship Kept America from Learning about the Futility of “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques”
by Lincoln Caplan | Saturday, November 07, 2020
The Black Banners Declassified: How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11 ·
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