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Earlier this year, the journal Social Research: An International Quarterly released a special issue on Estrangement. The eight essays take a look at the issue in both historical and current social and political contexts. Editor Arien Mack from The New School...

My latest book from the Johns Hopkins University Press was written as a literary form of crisis communications. Across parts of the United States and Europe we’ve now seen a reversal of some of the great public health gains achieved over the last two decades...

Earlier this year, Theatre Topics published a special issue on "Theatre and Protest." The issue featured eight essays as well as production notes from a half-dozen campus performances of either "Every 28 Hours" or "After Orlando," short-form dramas designed to...

There’s something about honey bees that delights us. They are known as “social” for a reason: they care for each other throughout their lives. They are born to serve one another and this devotion to the tens of thousands of bees within their community ensures...

It might surprise you to know that along with a diagnosis of depression, bipolar disorder, or other mental illness, a person often experiences a number of personal life losses that need to be addressed. Most people don’t even think about it or realize that...

Earlier this year, the JHU Press published the first issue of a new journal The Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies. An initiative of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University, the journal will publish leading scholarship on all aspects of...

Until very recently, the things that we refer to as “newspapers” were exclusively material objects made of paper. Today, many people actually read what they call “newspapers” on digital devices, and some have even taken to calling printed newspapers “dead tree...

Most people think that the Enlightenment was the “age of reason,” characterized by the emergence of rational approaches to socio-political problems, the rise of religious toleration, and the decline of devout fanaticism. In describing the learned culture of...

The creation of the intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, in the 1950s is an important event in both the history of nuclear weapons and in that of space exploration. Until recent years, however, the real stories behind the first ICBMs were concealed or...

When I began exploring the history of LSD psychotherapy research in 2008, I had little idea that the momentum was in fact building on a new era of psychedelic research. In the 1950s and 60s, researchers reported impressive results using LSD in conjunction with...