History & Heritage · Essay
Who Gets a Name on the Street?
Public commemoration is a present-day decision about which histories deserve everyday visibility.
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History & Heritage · Retrospective
Notre-Dame’s Reopening and the Labor of Continuity
The cathedral’s return in December 2024 made visible a question that heritage projects must continually answer: what should endure?
History & Heritage · Explainer
Oral History Records a Relationship as Well as a Memory
An interview becomes a historical source through consent, context, and careful interpretation.
History & Heritage · Analysis
Returning an Object Changes a Museum’s Authority
Restitution asks who should possess cultural material and who gets to determine its future.
History & Heritage · Explainer
An Archive’s First Task After a Disaster
Protecting records begins before anyone opens a damaged box.
Ideas & Philosophy · Opinion
What Would a Good Week Look Like?
The calendar can expose a distance between the life we praise and the life we arrange.
Ideas & Philosophy · Explainer
What Changes When Ethics Begins With Relationships?
African ethical thought offers a way to examine obligations that an isolated picture of the individual can overlook.
Ideas & Philosophy · Explainer
Stoicism Is Larger Than a Quote About Resilience
An ancient philosophical system becomes easier to misunderstand when it is reduced to a coping slogan.
Ideas & Philosophy · Essay
Simone Weil’s Demanding Idea of Attention
Listening to another person can require giving up the answer we arrived with.
Ideas & Philosophy · Analysis
Effective Altruism and the Question of Who Decides
Measuring good outcomes is useful. Choosing what counts as good still requires a public argument.