Arts & Humanities A Conversation on Paul Celan: We Are All Migrants of Language Durs Grünbein and Michael Eskin discuss Paul Celan’s lasting influence and legacy.
Arts & Humanities Women Doctors in Nazi Germany: Opportunists or Engaged Physicians? For Jewish doctors, Nazism meant emigration or death, but many non-Jewish German female physicians had careers that spanned the Weimar Republic and the Nazi regime. They upheld the aims of a repressive dictatorship.
Arts & Humanities Toxic Video Game Culture and Why I Don’t Call Myself a “Gamer” For years, online gaming communities have been plagued with toxic behavior and harassment. The instigators are often young, white, male, and angry. Anne Ladyem McDivitt reflects on how identifying as a “Gamer” reaches far beyond the enjoyment of playing video games.
Arts & Humanities The Paradox of Chaos and the Emergence of History The year 2020 seems to have brought us “a hell of evils,” to borrow philosopher Immanuel Kant’s phrase. Can history help us make sense of the chaos we are facing?