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I went to school at the dawn of the microcomputer. These were expensive, immobile boxes that only responded to coded commands. Today I hold a smartphone in my hand that is over 10,000 times more powerful and infinitely more flexible. This incredible...

A title of a June 29, 2017 article in Business Insider declares “College Enrollment has plummeted, and private universities are scrambling.” This article points to activities at Ohio Wesleyan University such as creating majors in high-demand fields, increased...

The Satrap and I: Writing Persian Interventions My fascination with Achaemenid Persia’s interventions in Greek conflicts began in a college seminar on the crisis of the Greek city state, when I first read Book VIII of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian...

Earlier this year, Theatre Journal released a special issue on "Theatre and the Museum/Cultures of Display," sparked by journal co-editor Jennifer Parker-Starbuck's personal fascination with the history of collection and display. "This special issue, then, was...

A Woman's Guide to Living with Heart Disease: my blog-turned-book! By Carolyn Thomas Part Two: Writing the Blog-Turned-Book After two copies of my book contract were duly signed and returned to JHUP, I bought myself a new laptop to replace my ancient MacBook...

In 1958 I spent a rather extraordinary week in New York City—a California teenager on the loose with two high school buddies. What proved particularly remarkable was how we spent our afternoons. Each day we stood in the back of a different Broadway theater—and...

Few people are familiar with HHT, an uncommon blood vessel disorder affecting about 1 in 5000 people around the world. So today I’ll introduce you to HHT—what it is and when to get tested for it. What is HHT? HHT stands for Hereditary Hemorrhagic...

Life is a soul school, and some classes are harder than others. For decades after his death in 1910, William James served as the genial uncle figure of American philosophy. He was famous as a popularizer, even though his tendencies to offer insights connecting...

I first started writing Red Modernism for the same reason I write most things: to work through a problem whose answer, tantalizing as it might be, just doesn’t come easily. The problem, in this case, evolved from a contradiction between my enthusiasm for...

Fixing the Poor: Molly Ladd-Taylor’s new take on eugenic sterilization Even in these polarized times, everyone can agree that the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans under state eugenics laws was wrong. Most Americans recoil from the idea of improving...