The first part of Stefano Gualeni’s What We Owe the Dead is a fictional police report, drafted in a dystopian future in which humans live within inhabitable cooling mega-siphons built to counteract ...

A writer and scholar, Gil Z. Hochberg is the Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies, and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies ...

Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the crime of crimes that obligates states to intervene, has taken the lives of large numbers of Palestinian scholars. Many were accomplished academics with long histories of ...

As soon as the Board of Regents voted—and the ink dried on the nearly $3 million contract—the University of Michigan put its president elect, Kent Syverud, right to work as the university’s new ...

The proliferating forms and functions of artificial intelligence have loosened many lips. Across the theoretical and the political spectrum, initial reactions ranged from despair to anticipatory ...

I usually flinch from swashbuckling claims, but let me make this one at least: No hero from ancient myth feels as human as Odysseus. No one as relatable in their indomitable will to survive. Is it any ...

“Serious scholars” ought to generate a “fair-minded account” of what makes “America” unique and exceptional, propose Richard D. Kahlenberg and Lief Lin, two researchers from the Progressive Policy ...

These iconic moments reveal how deeply football and politics shape each other in Argentina. The interplay between politics and football is examined in two recent books, which explore how Argentine ...