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Here's a thought-provoking map making the rounds. It's a rather capricious summary of a series of maps depicting land use across t...

Here's the syllabus for my Sophomore Tutorial, which starts tomorrow!

Late summer light

  Our seminar on New School Histories began today. Not quite at capacity but enough to run. Perhaps the students found it engaging enough...

As the world reels from another set of revelations of pervasive abuse of children by Catholic priests and the complicity of the Church hier...

This is what students in "Theorizing Religion" will find in our online learning system Canvas. (I add files in bursts as we go al...

Just finished a novel I picked up in Garden Books in Shanghai a few weeks ago. It's the first novel of 余华 Yu Hua, a contemporary writer...

Checking in with the Met on a Friday night without a special exhibition to see, we had a delightful wander through the wonderfully empty E...

Memory is a strange thing, unreliable even when it isn't (as mine is) getting a little creaky with age. William James was right - we re...

Found out today about this great resource from our archives - a table listing the many many name changes which can make telling the stor...

The New School, as you know, lumbers toward its centenary next year. Belatedly, all sorts of people are noticing. You might have thought th...

Not everyone is taking this end of summer thing so well.

Behold, the syllabus 1.0 for "Theorizing Religion," 2018 version! We start a week from today.

This somewhat rangy paragraph, from the newer piece by Saba Mahmood I'm using in "Theorizing Religion" this year , speaks to ...

A new academic year means a new iteration of "Theorizing Religion," the one required course for our minor in religious studies. R...

Have you heard about the outlines of ancient human structures and settlements which have been revealed by the British version of this summe...

From a facebook post reposted by an old friend I learned the name for a phenomenon I've long noticed and marveled at (New York's p...

An article in the New York Times Magazine about Carl Woese, whose work upended the idea that all forms of life and their relationships can...

Part of the challenge of education in New York is holidays. Every couple of years it makes starting a course in the Fall a rather complicat...