Last year, the GSE’s Jennifer Wolf discussed the push to ban books from U.S. schools. “I’ve read many of these ... and I can attest – they do push us outside of our comfort area.”
Democracy is messy, says Josiah Ober in his new book. “Democratic citizens must live among and negotiate the terms of their common lives with others who hold diverging interests. That means deliberating with people with whom we disagree.”
How a fierce debate in the 1940s between a scientist and a senator informs Stanford Digital Education’s efforts to bring challenging courses to Title I high schools.
Samia Errazzouki discusses the challenges facing Morocco in the country’s recovery post-earthquake, and how historical and structural forces are contributing to the region’s problems.
Libraries play a critical role in preserving video games, but legal restrictions are impacting preservation efforts in unexpected ways, says Stanford’s Silicon Valley Archives curator Henry Lowood.
Haiyan Lee, author of a new book that compares Chinese and American views of justice, on why spy thrillers are more popular in China than detective stories.
“It is customary to speak of someone having a gender identity, but most of us have many gender feels, which need not pattern together in any particular way,” Stanford philosopher R.A. Briggs writes in a new co-authored book.
A new approach to genetic ancestry developed by Stanford researchers yields insight into African American history by providing estimates of the number of African and European genealogical ancestors in typical family trees.
Bert Patenaude’s new book, Bread + Medicine: American Famine Relief in Soviet Russia, 1921-1923, recounts the pivotal role U.S. doctors played in saving lives.
