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A Hacker's Mind
A hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn’t computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them …
Liberty Equality Fashion
Joséphine Bonaparte, future consort of Napoléon; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, cast off the rigid clothing …
The Undertow
Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture whilst preparing for civil war. …
We Loved It All
Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet's first work of non-fiction, We Loved It All, is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional …
Misunderstood Vegetables
Maybe you just discovered celeriac, at the grocery. Or perhaps you received watermelon radishes in an Abel & Cole package. Did a parsnip catch your eye at the farmers’ market? Even …
Did It Happen Here?
Since the 2016 US presidential election, politicians, historians, intellectuals and media pundits have debated a startling question: Is fascism happening in America? Some argue …
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Philosophy”, Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote, “should actually be written only as poetry”. That Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus—Wittgenstein’s master-work, and the only book he …
Foraged & Grown
Foraged and Grown is a culinary journey through the seasons with recipes that highlight herbal ingredients and share their use in various historic folk traditions. From Nettle …
The Sickness Unto Death
The “greatest psychologist of the spirit since St. Augustine” (Gregory R. Beabout), Soren Kierkegaard is renowned for such richly imagined philosophical works as Fear and Trembling …
Revolutions in American Music
Michael Broyles shows how three key decades—the 1840s, the 1920s and the 1950s—shaped America’s musical future. In each, new styles of music combined with emerging technologies, …
Between Us
“How are you feeling today?” We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside but in Between Us, acclaimed psychologist Batja Mesquita asks us to reconsider them …