High-profile failures present an opportunity to enhance public understanding and appreciation for the self-correcting nature of mainstream science.
Chad Orzel | Jun 23, 2020
“We live in one way, and we think in another. We learn to think in parallel. It’s a skill, an art of living.”
Kari Marie Norgaard | Jun 19, 2020
Against the grim background of the Covid-19 catastrophe, there is some small cause for hope in the current renewal of enthusiasm for cycling.
Bruce Bennett | Jun 15, 2020
"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."
Ben Barres | Jun 11, 2020
"I didn’t have a sense of inhibition that you shouldn’t even dare change things, because I lived it and I saw it happen."
Kofi Annan | Jun 5, 2020
Over time, #TrayvonMartin transformed from a signifier of Martin himself to a symbol of the broader condition of racial bias and injustice in America.
Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles | Jun 5, 2020
We no longer believe that witches ride on brooms, but we continue to believe that races have powers that we should fear.
Peter Temin | Jun 4, 2020
"I don’t even get angry anymore. Just the fact of being a black man anymore is an automatic threat to certain people."
Gustave M. Solomons, Jr. | Jun 3, 2020
Societal values, the caste system, arranged marriages, the high probability of being disinherited for coming out — in India, everything runs counter to gay liberation.
Frédéric Martel | Jun 2, 2020
American writer and activist Dhoruba Bin Wahad was falsely imprisoned for 19 years. His essay on the national oppression of Black people remains deeply relevant today.
Dhoruba Bin Wahad | May 30, 2020
