What If Using AI Isn’t Cheating?

Meghan O’Rourke’s essay about technology’s uses and abuses makes me wonder if students can help us reinvent the humanities

In the last 18 months, publicly available artificial intelligence (AI) programs have turned conversations about the humanities on college campuses into conversations about cheating. Do you remember when life was easy, and all you had to detect was whether a student had purchased a paper or plagiarized portions of it? I ...
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What If Using AI Isn’t Cheating?

 It’s Good Work—If You Can Get It

A conversation with Alexandrea Ravenelle about Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times

As the world of work sagged and collapsed, University of North Carolina sociologist and W-2 worker Alexandrea Ravenelle decided to document this economic shock in real time....

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 It’s Good Work—If You Can Get It

Where In the World Is Merze Tate?

A conversation with historian Barbara Savage about freedom, independence, and her new biography, Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar

In this episode of "Why Now?," Claire Potter and Barbara D. Savage discuss the life of trailblazing Black academic Vernie Merze Tate....

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Where In the World Is Merze Tate?

Why the Blind Should Lead the Blind

A conversation with Andrew Leland about the history and politics of disability and his book, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

Visually disabled people increasingly turn to institutions and support networks that are created, designed, and implemented by other blind people....

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Why the Blind Should Lead the Blind

The Adventures of a Very Amateur Historian

In episode 38, Claire Potter chats with Allison Epstein about her new novel on Imperial Russia, Let the Dead Bury the Dead

Allison Epstein’s new historical novel, Let the Dead Bury the Dead, is a story about Russians fighting for freedom. It’s a ripping tale about an officer coming home from the Napoleonic Wars to the man he loves....

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The Adventures of a Very Amateur Historian

The Reality of Desire

In this episode, feminist sex educator, filmmaker and podcast host Tristan Taormino discusses her new memoir, “A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten”

In this episode of Why Now?, feminist sex educator, filmmaker and podcast host Tristan Taormino discusses her new memoir, "A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten"...

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The Reality of Desire

First, Pick the Right Wife

Why Now? With Claire Potter, Episode 8

A conversation with historian Robin Morris, author of "From Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right" about how women activists transformed the GOP ...

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Our Bodies, Ourselves, Online

Historian and activist Saniya Lee Ghanoui explains how a feminist classic entered the twenty-first century

When we started, we knew we needed experts from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Women and gender-expansive people from different races brought their own perspectives, personal and expert, and that would help us address racial health disparities. ...

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Our Bodies, Ourselves, Online