February 2016

Peter Galison, the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University, is fascinated by the “concrete visuals behind what might appear to be pure abstraction.” His new film Containment is about nuclear waste and its safekeeping for now and the...

Harvard professor Jennifer Hochschild remembers the first time a scholarly article about blogging came across her desk. She laughs now describing how she and fellow editors at Perspectives on Politics did not know what to make of it in 2003. “We spent a...

Condensed from interviews with Noah Feldman, Jennifer Hochschild, and Dani Rodrik. —with Noah Feldman Q. How was writing for a popular audience viewed within the academic world earlier in your career and has that attitude changed? A. When I started...

These tips are condensed from an interview. Here’s the unspoken secret of the contemporary media world: in the age of the Internet and social media, every single media outlet is hungry for good content. That ranges from the more popular aspects of...