The more we historicize prediction, the more we see its role not only as a mirror of...
Predictive policing is not a neutral tool. It is a technological expression of old power structures, reframed...
The modern gaze, filtered through lenses, algorithms, and scans, is heir to a much older logic. What...
In the drive to catalog every face, every breath, every blink, we risk losing something human, something...
To understand the present is not to discover novelty, but to recognize continuity. Today’s digital behavioral engineering...
What is at stake is not simply privacy. It is the right to be unpredictable. The right...
Coffee drinkers are noticing a shift in their favorite brews, with new trends shaping the choices they...
By tracing how past rulers manipulated meaning, we gain sharper tools to recognize when the same sleights...
The culture wars will not end tomorrow. They serve too many interests and generate too much political...
The language that cloaks privilege is often older than we realize, echoing through cathedrals and corporate boardrooms...
When governments restrain investment in public goods out of fear, inequality deepens. Trust erodes. Social mobility stalls....
Dictatorship thrives not only on the whip and the gun, but on the frame and the filter....
By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate When Power Needs a Makeover Authoritarian regimes have long relied on force,...
Throughout human history, jewelry has played a central role, serving not only as an embellishment, but also...
The stories of Akkad, the Maya, and Rome offer more than cautionary tales; they offer insight into...
Heat is no longer the silent season. It is the signal. The planet is speaking through boiling...
The Medieval Warm Period created space for expansion, but much of that expansion was borne by peasants...
If we want to survive what’s coming, and what’s already here, we must build a world where...
Rivers did not stay put. Coastlines receded. Earthquakes reshaped terrain. These disruptions did more than challenge surveying...
Vanishing edges caused by climate change are not the end. They are the test. Of our systems,...
When I think about what’s driving the future of clean energy, my mind always circles back to...
For millions of years, humans have exploited their natural environments for effective plant remedies. By Dr. Patrick...
The edible vaccine conspiracy is, in a way, a folk tale for the digital age—mixing magic, medicine,...
Tea became popular with Zen Buddhist monks as it was thought to aid meditation and ward off...
It’s about the gap between our national conversation about health and the structures we actually fund and...
For this great master of the form, eating offered a model for the sensuous consumption of her...
Trump’s Big Ugly Bill slashes nutrition aid, leaving millions of children at risk of hunger as school...
By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction: Reconstructing the Neanderthal Male Prehistoric Neanderthals—Homo neanderthalensis—once evoked brutish caricatures in...
How “alpha male” ideology distorts masculinity, undermines emotional health, and fuels a culture of domination over connection....
The migrations of Bronze Age men were seismic forces that shaped genetic maps, political systems, and gender...