Sam Haselby
Sam is a historian of early America with a particular interest in religion and politics. He was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and has been a faculty member at the American University of Beirut, the American University in Cairo and at Columbia University in New York City. He was a Senior Executive Producer at Al Jazeera America and is the author of The Origins of American Religious Nationalism (paperback, 2016). @samhaselby
Edited by Sam Haselby
Race and ethnicity
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If racial identity can be fluid, who changes their race?
by Alexander Agadjanian
Cooperation and collaboration
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Defining social trust is a first step toward nurturing it
by Kevin Vallier
Work and vocation
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Why AI surveillance at work leads to perverse outcomes
by Karen Levy
Pleasures and pastimes
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The brewer, the yeast, and the boundaries of human agency
by Andrei A Buckareff
Beauty and aesthetics
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Beauty is not an ornament to the good life, it is at its heart
by Nick Riggle
Beauty and aesthetics
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What happens if we make the Mona Lisa more symmetrical?
by Manil Suri
Stories and literature
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Ovid’s tales of mutual love show he was more than a poet of rape
by Stephanie McCarter
Technology and media
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The pleasure, the pain and the politics of a digital detox
by Trine Syvertsen
Civic life
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The origin story of a slogan, ‘the personal is political’
by Guy Stevenson
Wonder and the sublime
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To benefit from wonder, make sure you’ve got the genuine kind
by Lisa Sideris
History of psychology and psychiatry
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How a Viennese genius (not the one you think) understood penis envy
by Heba Yosry
Technology and media
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What the journey from Star Trek to Siri says about our culture
by Liz W Faber