Of Pears and Kings
By Patricia Mainardi Images have long provided a means of protesting political regimes bent on censoring language. In the 1830s a band of French caricaturists, led by Charles Philipon, weaponized…
Interview: Did Scientists and the Media Get Covid All Wrong?
March 7, 2025 by Sara Talpos In March and April of 2020, more than 50,000 people in the United States died from the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Doctors were forced to…
Extended Interview: Mark Graham on Internet Archive’s Work Preserving the Web as Gov’t Sites Go Dark
Extended interview with Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. He is also part of the End of Term Archive for federal websites. Transcript This is…
Chaos and turmoil are whipping through America, spreading fear in Ohio and across the country
by David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal February 21, 2025 Only one month in and the winds of chaos, the fallout of careless destruction, whip across the country, lashing Ohio, spreading…
Gut-wrenching love: What a fresh look at the ‘Good Samaritan’ story says for ethics today
Meghan Sullivan, University of Notre Dame The Bible story of the Good Samaritan is more than a mainstay of Sunday school courses. “Good samaritan” is the catch-all way to describe…
Book Review: The Neurological Roots of ‘Sinful’ Behavior
February 7, 2025 by Emily Cataneo James was in his late 30s and weighed more than 500 pounds when he fell in the bathroom and found himself wedged between the…
Dictator Donald Thinks He’s Invincible; He’s Not
Unless he changes course, he will be brought down by corruption throughout his ranks, plunging polls, resistance by many states, and a Congressional GOP realizing that it is their political…
“Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s Impending Revolution (1872)
By: Hunter Dukes She was the first woman to run for president. The first female stockbroker to open a brokerage house on Wall Street. The first person to publish Marx…
We Need Greenland. But Not in the Way Trump Thinks.
January 23, 2025 by Paul Bierman Donald Trump has a thing for Greenland. First, he wanted to buy the Arctic island. Then, his son visited for a photo-op. Now, he…
Elon Musk and the history of the ‘Roman salute’
By: Samuel Agbamu, University of Reading How often do you think about the Roman empire? Elon Musk claims to think about it every day. Given his frequent references to Roman…