Video In Dialogue with Lucas Bessire and Emmet Gowin April 29, 2022 In The One Hundred Circle Farm, renowned photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) presents stunning aerial images of center-pivot irrigation systems in the western and midwestern United States. In this short discussion with anthropologist and National Book Award finalist Lucas Bessire, author of Running Out, Gowin offers insight into his powerful photographic survey of the impact of irrigation systems on landscape. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake on correcting economic disappointments March 18, 2022 The past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ills that have left people wondering what has happened to the future they were promised. Read More
Video Joseph Ewoodzie Jr.: “The neighborhood is no longer what it used to be” February 09, 2022 “The neighborhood is no longer what it used to be. The experience of blackness is not either.” Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. explains how talking to Jacksonians about their food choices helped him to understand more about their changing racial and cultural identities. Read More
Video Cynthia Miller-Idriss on the anniversary of the January 6th Capitol attack January 05, 2022 The 2021 attack on the Capitol changed the face of the United States. As the events of January 6th unfolded they were televised across the world, allowing a global audience to experience a violent response to an election held in what was once considered the world’s foremost democracy. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Chryl Laird on the social experiment that helped her understand Black voters December 15, 2021 Steadfast Democrats author Chryl N. Laird explains what a social experiment taught her about the way group behavior of Black voters is shaped by social networks. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Kyle Harper on a germ’s-eye view of history November 30, 2021 In the immortal words of the rock band The Doors, people are strange. From nature’s perspective, human beings are highly unusual. Plagues upon the Earth PUP Speaks author Kyle Harper shows how humans became the irresistible hosts of so many diseases, and how it has shaped us as a species. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Rachel Gable on The Hidden Curriculum October 11, 2021 Rachel Gable, PUP Speaks author of The Hidden Curriculum, presents the results of her investigation into the difficulties first generation students must overcome to succeed. Read More
Video Hosts and Guests: Readings by poet Nate Klug October 07, 2021 Nate Klug has been hailed by the Threepenny Review as a poet who is “an original in Eliot’s sense of the word.” In Hosts and Guests, his exciting second collection, Klug revels in slippery roles and shifting environments. Read More
Video Not Meant as Poems October 05, 2021 Rain in Plural is the much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, who has been praised by The Rumpus as “a master of musicality and enlightening allusions.” Read More
Video Jemma Wadham on Ice Rivers September 15, 2021 In Ice Rivers, renowned glaciologist Jemma Wadham offers a searing personal account of glaciers and the rapidly unfolding crisis that they—and we—face. Read More
Interview Anne-Marie Slaughter on Renewal September 07, 2021 Like much of the world, America is deeply divided over identity, equality, and history. Renewal is Anne-Marie Slaughter’s candid and deeply personal account of how her own odyssey opened the door to an important new understanding of how we as individuals, organizations, and nations can move backward and forward at the same time, facing the past and embracing a new future. Read More
Essay Jaws, lost sharks, and the legacy of Peter Benchley July 13, 2021 Jaws, the mere mention of the movie conjures up images of a large triangular fin cutting through the water, beneath it a large fearsome-looking toothy shark swimming with a sense of authority, a purpose. Read More
Video Things Fall Together book trailer June 22, 2021 Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. Read More
Video Visualizing Dunhuang: A look inside the nine‑volume set June 01, 2021 We invite you to take a look inside this stunning nine-volume presentation of the incredible Buddhist caves at Dunhuang in northwestern China. Read More
Video How the giving habits of the super‑rich affect the rest of us May 16, 2021 It’s the time of year when our personal finances come to the forefront, but not many Americans are aware that the spending and giving habits of the super-rich are having a direct impact on public provision and policy. Read More
