October 30, 2014
—Simon I. Singer A large segment of the over 2 million people currently incarcerated in the United States entered the criminal justice system as adolescents. From the 1980s on, too… READ MORE
October 28, 2014
—Amanda M. Czerniawski Kalliopi Monoyios for Scientific American writes about artist Nickolay Lamm’s Barbie project, where he created a doll based on the measurements of a “real, healthy 19-year-old” and… READ MORE
October 22, 2014
—Pamela Newkirk [This article originally appeared at the Chronicle of Higher Education.] Rarely is a white audience afforded a lucid and freewheeling response to the deluge of indignities blacks still endure. Instead,… READ MORE
October 20, 2014
Doing Time in the Depression, Ethan Blue’s seminal work on prison life in the 1930s, is coming out in paperback next month! To celebrate, we pulled one of our favorite excerpts… READ MORE
October 15, 2014
In the interview below, historian Kyle Bulthuis discusses his forthcoming book, Four Steeples over the City Streets: Religion and Society in New York’s Early Republic Congregations (NYU Press, October 2014). What led… READ MORE
October 7, 2014
—Glenn W. Shuck Critics just don’t get Left Behind, a new movie adaptation of the best-selling book series. Sure, it’s predictably awful. The acting is bad, the production is terrible, and the… READ MORE