Donna Riley is a lifelong social activist and student of liberation theology who also happens to be a ...
B. R. Cohen
B. R. Cohen is an associate professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food (2019) and Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside (2009), coeditor (with Gwen Ottinger) of Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement (2011), and former cohost of the podcast Various Breads and Butters. 
Public Thinker: T. L. Taylor on Gamergate, Live-Streaming, and Esports
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 ...
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 ...