The qualitative sociologist T. L. Taylor is a professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT and cofounder and director of research for AnyKey, an organization dedicated to ...
B. R. Cohen
B. R. Cohen is an associate professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside (Yale University Press, 2009), coeditor (with Gwen Ottinger) of Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement (MIT Press, 2011), and cohost of the podcast Various Breads and Butters. His book, Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food (University of Chicago Press, 2019), is forthcoming. 
Public Thinker: Siva Vaidhyanathan on Facebook and Other “Antisocial” Media
Siva Vaidhyanathan has built a career as a media studies and communications ...
Public Thinker: Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things
Scholars who want to write beyond the academy often ask, where are the ...
This Morning Was a Poem: On and Near Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit’s new memoir, The Faraway Nearby, is a morning poem. Last summer, I sat outside on a covered patio beneath the awning and read it straight through. I read for hours. The book had been ...
The Confidence Economy: An Interview with T. J. Jackson Lears
Questions about trust, faith, and chance in American cultural history are at the core of your work as I see it. Your interest in confidence and con men is especially striking ...
