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Culture	Philosophy for Passengers: Reflections on ‘Passenger Time’ We are, all of us, time’s passengers, witnesses to its passing, which is also our own. Michael Marder \| May 12
Culture	Birthing Furniture: An Illustrated History An excerpt from "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births." Michelle Millar Fisher & Amber Winick \| Apr 28
Culture	Calculating Skies: Topologies of Air and the Airspace Tribunal Can we deploy creative practices to critically address the fatal interlocking of global surveillance technologies, neocolonial expansionism, environmental degradation, and the lethal threat of drone warfare? Anthony Downey \| Apr 22
Culture	The Weird, Wonderful History of Fairground Photography An essay from renowned photography historian Clément Chéroux’s book “Since 1839... Eleven Essays on Photography." Clément Chéroux, Translated by Shane B. Lillis \| Mar 29
Culture	The Brilliant Vision of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s When will we ever see realized what Sultana glimpses: the abolition of fossil-fuel technologies, the greenifying of cities, the detoxification of masculinity, and the triumph of love and truth over fear and hatred? Joshua Glenn \| Mar 24
Culture	At the Azraq Refugee Camp, Restoring Humanity Through Art and Design An excerpt from “Design to Live,” documenting designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. Azra Aksamija, Raafat Majzoub, and Melina Philippou \| Mar 22
Culture	Crossing Borders, Imagining Heimat: On Art and Home An excerpt from Peter Chametzky’s book “Turks, Jews, and Other Germans in Contemporary Art,” the first volume to examine multicultural visual culture in Germany. Peter Chametzky \| Mar 15
Culture	Calypso Confusion Harry Belafonte’s best-selling album “Calypso!” propelled the genre into mainstream American consciousness, but its celebration of Jamaica launched a fundamental misunderstanding that obscured calypso’s origins and colonialist history. Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder \| Mar 11
Culture	Has Higher Education in the United States Lost Its Way? In conversation with Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner, authors of “The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be.” The Editors \| Mar 10
Culture	The Rise of Hindu Nationalism The year 2022 marks 75 years of India’s independence — and 20 years since the anti-Muslim pogrom that foreshadowed Narendra Modi’s majoritarian reboot of Indian nationalism, writes Cherian George. Cherian George \| Feb 28