Faculty Bibliography
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Walter Isaacson’s new biography depicts a man who wields more power than almost any other person on the planet but seems estranged from humanity itself.
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In 1964, on the band’s first world tour, Paul McCartney took pictures that have only recently been discovered. What do they show us?
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Forests fed us, housed us, and made our way of life possible. But they can’t save us if we can’t save them.
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We’ve uploaded everything anyone has ever known onto a worldwide network of machines. What if it doesn’t have all the answers?
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They promise forty-pound beets, rhubarb that tastes like wine, tomatoes that look like stained-glass windows, and world salvation. It doesn’t hurt to dream.
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The investigative committee singles out Trump for his role in the Capitol attack. As prosecution, the report is thorough. But as historical explanation it’s a mess.
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In his “Slough House” thrillers, the screwups save the day—and there’s a very fine line between comedy and catastrophe.
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In New England, the birds were once hunted nearly to extinction; now they’re swarming the streets like they own the place. Sometimes turnabout is fowl play.
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Our twenty-first-century culture of performed remorse has become a sorry spectacle.
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How our inability to change America’s most important document is deforming our politics and government.
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Jill Lepore, Bicycles Have Evolved. Have We?, New Yorker (May 23, 2022).
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From the velocipede to the ten-speed, biking innovations brought riders freedom. But in a world built for cars, life behind handlebars is both charmed and dangerous.
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If the Democratic response to Justice Alito’s draft opinion was largely rhetorical, was it also a missed opportunity?
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Jill Lepore, Of Course the Constitution Has Nothing to Say About Abortion, New Yorker (May 4, 2022).
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There is no mention of the procedure in a four-thousand-word document crafted by fifty-five men in 1787. This seems to be a surprise to Samuel Alito.
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From evolution to anti-racism, parents and progressives have clashed for a century over who gets to tell our origin stories.
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The battle over what we read isn’t about to end anytime soon.
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From work schedules to TV seasons to baseball games, the seven-day cycle has long ordered American society. Will we ever get rid of it?
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The most important animal-rights case of the 21st century revolves around an unlikely subject.
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Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.
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How the company’s pledge to bring the world together wound up pulling us apart.
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As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful—but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.
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In the literature of contagion, when society is finally free of disease, it’s up to humanity to decide how to begin again.
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Starting in the eighteenth century, citizens were promised their rights in print. Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?
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Amid a global gold rush for digital weapons, the infrastructure of our daily lives has never been more vulnerable.
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Americans are told to give their all—time, labor, and passion—to their jobs. But do their jobs give enough back?
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What began as a protest, rally, and march ended as something altogether different—a day of anarchy that challenges the terminology of history.
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Jill Lepore, Does “Wonder Woman 1984” Hide Its Hero’s True Superpowers?, New Yorker (Dec. 25, 2020).
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The new film about a female icon ignores her history as a female rebel.
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How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.
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Projecting a winner isn’t the same as counting votes—and that’s true more than ever in 2020.
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What will happen next? The leaves will fall, and the winds will rise, and the sky will turn the white of winter. And the people, huddled inside, will get angrier and lonelier and angrier.
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How a scholar, advocate, and judge upended the entirety of American political thought.
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A cold-war-era corporation targeted voters and presaged many of today’s big-data controversies.
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Indoor life has its dangers, too, but building-design specialists have big plans for us.
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When J.F.K. ran for President, a team of data scientists with powerful computers set out to model and manipulate American voters. Sound familiar?
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Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
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How government commissions became alibis for inaction.
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The show was created to put kids’ screen time to good use. Half a century later, how is it holding up?
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The deadly episode stood for a bitterly divided era. Did we ever leave it?
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Until a century or so ago, almost no one lived alone; now many endure shutdowns and lockdowns on their own. How did modern life get so lonely?
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Jill Lepore, The National Emergency Library Is a Gift to Readers Everywhere, New Yorker (Mar. 26, 2020).
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The Internet Archive is providing free access to a trove of 1.4 million digitized books to help ease the strain of the coronavirus crisis.
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In the literature of pestilence, the greatest threat isn’t the loss of human life but the loss of what makes us human.
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In the past two centuries, the evolution of the U.S. Census has tracked the country’s social tensions and reflected its political controversies. Now its future is in question.
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Polls measure something, but it’s often the wrong thing (fame, money). They’re like S.A.T. scores.
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Learning from the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties.