is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His latest book is Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies (2025). As I cycle from downtown ...

In Rwanda, 2,000 to 10,000 adults are estimated to have been conceived through rapes that occurred during the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi ethnic group. Despite the country’s many efforts to reckon with ...

In Taiga, the Finland-based media artist Leena Lehti crafts a visceral ‘elegy’ to the boreal forests of her region. Created by Lehti without the use of a camera, the piece pairs animations of regional ...

In probing whether there are basic sex differences in humans, a psychologist and a biologist agree to seriously disagree ...

What is the highest goal our lives can achieve? Paul Tillich and Mark Van Doren’s insights from the 1950s are illuminating ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again? The Phaistos Disk: though undeciphered, the enigmatic disc repeats certain ...

With electron microscopes that magnify butterfly wings 50,000 times their original size, a hidden ‘topography’ emerges ...

The World Bank’s poverty line is inaccurate and out of date – an error that obscures the feebleness of market solutions ...