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Fall 2025
Beauty in Every Body
Anatomy has long been recognized as a field at the crossroads of politics, medicine, crime, taboo, professionalism, modesty, racism, sexism, and much else. A new book goes beyond these issues in exploring anatomy’s past, asking if early anatomical illustration could have been a space for the exploration of homoerotic desire, hidden in plain sight. -
May 21, 2024
Novel Technologies and the Choices We Make: Historical Precedents for Managing Artificial Intelligence
Scientific and technological innovations are made by people, and so they can be governed by people. Notwithstanding breathless popular descriptions of disempowered citizens cowed by technical complexity or bowing to the inevitable… Read More -
April 21, 2026
Untangling the “Cosmic Coincidence” of the Job Market
How do employers find good talent? How do people find good jobs and develop skills? On this podcast episode, Burning Glass Institute president Matt Sigelman shares his thoughts on the job market and the future work in the age of AI. -
April 7, 2026
The Future of Making Babies
Assisted reproductive technologies have helped many people have children, but the egg donors behind this process are often overlooked. Emily Packard Dawson discusses donors and the donation process, along with the ethical and policy challenges raised by advances in reproductive technologies. -
February 27, 2026
What Would Akanda Do?
An Indian actor in a future Mumbai has authorized politicians, entertainers, and businesses to use his likeness. When he discovers his image is being used as a tool for repression—and when two kids he’s close to disappear—the actor is forced to confront what he really gave away. -
Winter 2026
Making the Invisible Visible
Drawing on nearly a decade of research, Diane M. Tober situates egg donors at the center of a sprawling, ethically thorny, and economically complex system. The result is one of the most detailed portraits yet of the hidden labor sustaining assisted reproduction. -
Spring 2026
Merton Redux: Re-Confronting the Norms of Science in Democracy
Although public attention is focused on the federal government’s efforts to slash funding for scientific research, the decimation of the democratic institutional processes that undergird state-sponsored scientific research is far more consequential. -
May 29, 2026
Golden Rule
In an alternative legal system built on the concept of “an eye for an eye,” if you commit a crime, your punishment is that someday a network of state agents will perpetrate the same crime against you. These ministers, themselves survivors of violence, follow the principle of “commensurate severity.” When one such minister is assigned to a kidnapping case, she’s forced to determine what justice really looks like.
