• Legacy of Racism: The Tree and Land as Symbols of Love and Hate

    By Vanessa Fabien At the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference a few years ago, …

    A Remembrance of Osamu Mihashi (1936-2015)

    By Steve Light The Japanese sociologist and left-wing political activist Osamu Mihashi passed away on December 29, 2015 at the …

    Asking for a Friend: Confounded by the Cosmos

    Dear Olive,  How do I reconcile the fact that I am a tiny insignificant speck of dust floating through the …

    All Hail Daddy! Or, How Obedience Trumps Masculinity in the GOP

    By Ani Kokobobo Former FBI Director Jim Comey must have felt pretty good watching Attorney General Jeff Sessions testify to …

    A Long View of American Policy in Asia: On Michael Green’s By More Than Providence

    By Graham Webster In Michael J. Green’s rich and ambitious history of US strategic thinking toward Asia, one question stands …

    How to Fall in Love with a Love Story

    Katy Hershberger reviews Mandy Len Catron’s essay collection, "How to Fall in Love with Anyone."

    A Flâneur, But So What?: Franz Hessel and Objectivity in Weimar Berlin

    By Amanda DeMarco and Daniel Liu “Walking slowly down bustling streets is a particular pleasure. Awash in the haste of …

    Why Do Koreans Love Herman Hesse’s Demian Above All Other Western Novels?

    By Colin Marshall Not long before moving from Los Angeles to Seoul, I went book-shopping with my Korean language exchange …

    Orphan Black Season Five, “Beneath Her Heart”: Love-Hating Suburbia

    By Everett Hamner This is the third in a series of episode-by-episode reflections on Orphan Black season 5 (preview; episode 1; …

    Barret Baumgart: Navigating Climate Change with a Map of Dead Ends

    By Landon Bates I first met Barret Baumgart in 2007, when we were both undergraduates at U.C. Berkeley. Years later, …