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Serial Killers: A New Breed of Celebrity

Pop culture's surreal embrace of the serial killer.

by Julia Ingalls via CrimeReads on April 24, 2018

Haunted by History

War, famine and persecution inflict profound changes on bodies and brains. Could these changes persist over generations?

by Pam Weintraub via Aeon on April 18, 2018

Just Like Us

Boston and Providence meet the famous Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker.

by Yunte Huang via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 9, 2018

Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism

The bestselling guru's ancient wisdom is unmistakably modern – a disturbing symptom of the social malaise he sets out to cure.

by Pankaj Mishra via New York Review of Books on March 19, 2018

Chester A. Arthur Is the Most Forgotten President in U.S. History

That's the conclusion of a psychology study published in the journal Sciece.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on February 16, 2018

Could the 25th Amendment Be Trump’s Downfall?

An explanation of the provision that allows for the removal of a president who is deemed by others to be unable to serve.

by Jon Meacham via TIME on January 11, 2018

How A Psychologist’s Work on Race Identity Helped Overturn School Segregation

Mamie Phipps Clark came up with the oft-cited “doll test” and provided expert testimony in Brown v. Board of Education.

by Leila McNeill via Smithsonian on October 26, 2017

How Labor Scholars Missed the Trump Revolt

We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened.

by Jefferson Cowie via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 1, 2017

What if the President Ordering a Nuclear Attack isn’t Sane?

There are fewer checks in the system than you might think.

by Michael S. Rosenwald via Retropolis on August 9, 2017

What Does Trump's Golfing Reveal about His Personality?

Donald Trump has been playing a lot of golf since becoming president. Can his habit be explained by his "sky-high extroversion?"

by Jessica Brown via JSTOR Daily on August 2, 2017

What Good Is Fear?

As we face down the threat of climate change, it’s worth considering how fear of nuclear war has spurred humanity into action.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 20, 2017

Donald Trump and the 'Paranoid Style' in American (Intellectual) Politics

Revisiting Holfstadter's "paranoid style" in the era of Trump.

by Leo P. Ribuffo via The International Security Studies Forum on June 13, 2017

A History of Transgender Health Care

As the stigma of being transgender begins to ease, medicine is starting to catch up

by Farah Naz Khan via Scientific American on November 16, 2016

Aerial view of identical-looking houses in suburbs

Welcome to Disturbia

Why midcentury Americans believed the suburbs were making them sick.

by Amanda Kolson Hurley via Curbed on May 25, 2016

Eastern State Penitentiary, c. 1876.

A Brief History of Solitary Confinement

Dickens, Tocqueville, and the U.N. all agree about this American invention: It’s torture.

by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway via Longreads on February 2, 2016

A stack of books in a classroom.

The Racism of History Textbooks

How history textbooks reinforced narratives of racism, and the fight to change those books from the 1940s to the present.

by Jonathan Zimmerman, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on October 20, 2015

The Surprising Origin Story of Wonder Woman

The history of the comic-book superhero's creation seven decades ago has been hidden away — until now.

by Jill Lepore via Smithsonian on October 1, 2014

A Little Bit Softer Now, a Little Bit Softer Now…

The gradual decline of the fade-out in popular music.

by William Weir via Slate on September 15, 2014

Family photo.

Where Do Children’s Earliest Memories Go?

Our first three years are usually a blur and we don’t remember much before age seven. What are we hiding from ourselves?

by Kristin Ohlson via Aeon on July 30, 2014

Book shelves full of books

Book Culture and the Rise of Liberal Religion

The rise of liberal religion in the United States.

by Matthew S. Hedstrom via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on January 29, 2013

Unpopular Mandate

Why do politicians reverse their positions?

by Ezra Klein via The New Yorker on June 25, 2012

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's Great Depression

Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life. But what would today be treated as a "character issue" gave Lincoln the tools to save the nation.

by Joshua Wolf Shenk via The Atlantic on October 1, 2005

Ted Kaczynski being led by two law enforcement officers.

Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber

Purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.

by Alston Chase via The Atlantic on June 1, 2000

Woman hanging a poster of Hitler with a string of Nazi flags above it.

Who Goes Nazi?

The view from 1941.

by Dorothy Thompson via Harper’s on August 1, 1941

Charles Henry Turner with spiders, butterflies, and various insects in the background

Charles Henry Turner’s Insights Into Animal Behavior Were a Century Ahead of Their Time

Researchers are rediscovering the forgotten legacy of a pioneering Black scientist who conducted trailblazing research on the cognitive traits of animals.

by Alla Katsnelson via Knowable Magazine

A man in a suit with angel wings clipped to his back, tipping a hat with six different arms.

The Cult of the Entrepreneur

Why do Americans idealize people who found businesses?

by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein via The New Republic on February 17, 2025

A drawing of the book "Fat is a Feminist Issue" by Susie Orbach with a magnifying glass in front of it.

Was “Fat Is a Feminist Issue” Liberating? Or Weight-Loss Propaganda?

Susie Orbach’s 1978 book is a fascinating snapshot of diet and physical culture in a very different era.

by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela via The New Republic on December 5, 2024

How Entertainment Mangled Public Discourse

Neil Postman’s jeremiad against TV seems rather quaint today—and not just because he was shouting into the wind and knew it.

by Katha Pollitt via The New Republic on November 20, 2024

A row of beds at the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm.

“I Don’t Expect Many Escapes”

On the rise of the narcotic farm model, a radical reimagining of the nation’s approach to addiction.

by Holly M. Karibo via HNN on November 19, 2024

Magnifying glass on top of the book "The Mask of Sanity" by Hervey Cleckley.

The Man Who Invented the “Psychopath”

Hervey Cleckley wanted to treat the most overlooked psychiatric patients. Instead his work was used to demonize them.

by Camille Bromley via The New Republic on November 7, 2024

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