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In 1714, doctor, philosopher and writer Bernard Mandeville published The Fable of the Bees, a humorous tale in which a prosperous hive full...
Globally, we spend around $3 trillion dollars a year on research, roughly 2% of global GDP. This activity is the source of many breakthrough...
Will artificial intelligence soon be fighting our wars for us? Could a machine ever command an army? Anthony King is skeptical. In AI, Autom...
Elizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addiction: her sister’s destructive alcoholism and dependency on prescription dru...
After Caesar's assassination, the triumvirs drew up a kill list; one such target, a man named Lucius Plotius Plancus, fled to a villa near N...
Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work (Princeton UP, 2026) retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the s...
For as long as human societies have been telling stories, the patriarchy has felt threatened by women. In this book, Eleanor Johnson provide...
The United States is an exceptionally violent country, increasingly unable or unwilling to stem violence in its many forms. A growing corpor...
With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pan...
Great Power Diplomacy. The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger (Princeton UP, 2025) is a captivating history of diplomacy—a...
Humiliation pervades our politics, from images of stripped Palestinian men in Gaza to mocking chants at MAGA rallies. It suffuses pictures a...
In popular accounts of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the autocratic Catholic King James II was ousted by his subjects and replaced by his...
As affordability crises once limited to coastal cities have spread across the broader United States, the history of home and land ownership...
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor networ...
With senses that often seem alien to us, bees navigate complex decisions about where to find food, when to fight or flee, and how to work to...
Mark Peterson traces the American constitutional tradition to the control of land in medieval England, showing how the founders incorporated...
Political Scientists William Howell and Terry Moe have a new book out that explores how the United States constitutional system has given wa...
In Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing...
In the winter of 1472, the city of Dijon, France, became the stage for a remarkable legal drama. On the mayor’s orders, an investigator name...
Can laws be unjust and yet remain, in some sense, morally legitimate? In Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice (Princeton...