by Editor | Oct 14, 2022 | Literary Theory, Science Fiction
This story first appeared in Aeon; it was written by Calvert Jones and Celia Paris Humans are storytelling creatures: the stories we tell have profound implications for how we see our role in the world, and dystopian fiction keeps growing in popularity. According to...
by Editor | Jan 19, 2022 | Political Science, Science, Science Fiction
Molly Silk, PhD Candidate, Chinese Space Policy, University of Manchester This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. On the morning of June 17, China launched its long-awaited Shenzhou-12...
by Editor | Mar 26, 2020 | Literature
Professor John Mullan examines the origins of the Gothic, explaining how the genre became one of the most popular of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the subsequent integration of Gothic elements into mainstream Victorian fiction. Gothic fiction began...
by Editor | Oct 27, 2019 | Income Inequality, Political Economy
In 1930, a year into the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes sat down to write about the economic possibilities of his grandchildren. Despite widespread gloom as the global economic order fell to its knees, the British economist remained upbeat, saying that the...
by Editor | Aug 2, 2019 | Income Inequality, Political Science
Liberals say that rising income inequality is hurting economic growth. Libertarians say that government regulation is to blame. Who’s right?Both, say Steven Teles and Brink Lindsey, who visited Stanford Graduate School of Business recently as part of its Corporations...
