Siva Vaidhyanathan has built a career as a media studies and communications ...
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 is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in 2019. 
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 ...
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 ...