Karel Čapek's play "R.U.R." premiered in January 1921. Its influence cannot be overstated.
John M. Jordan | Jul 29, 2019
Literary utopias can provoke our critical faculties and open our minds to imaginative — and transformative — ideas.
Nick Montfort | Jul 25, 2019
A combination of greed, colonial mismanagement, and gross incompetence has brought Nauru, once dubbed ‘Pleasant Island,’ to the brink of collapse.
Peter Dauvergne | Jul 22, 2019
The evidence is far less clear than popular media might lead you to believe.
Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz | Jul 18, 2019
“You are not Proust. Do not write long sentences.”
Umberto Eco | Jul 8, 2019
How does one make a performance poem in the modern world? In “Subjoyride,” the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven leads the way, presenting a form of Dada “subvertising.”
Irene Gammel & Suzanne Zelazo | Jul 3, 2019
If medicine could break with its barbarous past, why shouldn’t the same path be open to the social sciences?
Lee McIntyre | Jun 13, 2019
Part of the magical allure of news reading, headlines play a crucial role in turning news into a story.
Zizi Papacharissi | May 30, 2019
Had the campaign to bring Sigmund Freud to Mexico succeeded, the imperiled psychoanalyst would have found himself living among the world’s foremost artists and intellectuals.
Rubén Gallo | May 30, 2019
Small businesses are not the engine of job growth, but that hasn't stopped small-is-beautiful advocates from continually making the claim.
Robert D. Atkinson & Michael Lind | May 30, 2019
