Mainstream economics tends only to consider that which is measurable and only to value that which produces a monetary cost or benefit. Unpaid labor becomes an afterthought, something easy to dismiss ...

Newspapers, illustrated journals, posters, and postcards turned the Dreyfus Affair into the first modern media event of the ...

In October 1899, Parisians could purchase a large color lithograph depicting a grotesque human-pig hybrid, complete with ...

Nancy Folbre explores the politics of care work and future of the industry in her latest book, Making Care Work.

Season 3 episode 2 looks at recent actions taken by the Trump administration that are having significant impacts on ...

We all like to see where we are going but sometimes need to step into the dark. Consider a slightly revised version of the Parable of the Streetlight: An economist is searching for lost keys under a ...

In a piece recently published in the New York Times under the title “Should We Cancel Aristotle?,” Agnes Collard, a philosopher at the University of Chicago, argues that “Aristotle did not merely ...

When the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the delegates had created. His reply—“A republic, if you can keep it”—was no mere quip from an ...

Associate Professor of Urban Studies at The New School for Public Engagement ...

“Hispanidad is the most important landmark of humanity, in my opinion only comparable with Rome. It is probably the most brilliant era, not of Spain, but of Man, together with the Roman Empire.” ...

Matt Walsh: The definition of conservatism … It has no definition, I think. We talk about the words that don’t mean anything anymore, words that used to be useful and maybe used to mean something and ...