Livia Gershon

Long before chatbots, fiction grappled with rule-bound intelligence, exploring what it means to build and rely on thinking machines.

Reproductive justice offers a new way to think about human flourishing beyond the job market.

Academics and media turned “machismo” into a cultural stereotype during the Cold War.

The city's prosperity grew from a system that trafficked human beings and turned their lives into profit.

For more than a century, foreign trips have reflected America's changing role in the world—and presidents' political priorities.

As automation transformed agriculture, advertisements increasingly celebrated physical strength and traditional masculine ideals.

Online platforms help Muslim scholars and activists share feminist interpretations of Islam, expanding access to new audiences.

Long read as an imperial novel, Kim also reflects Britain's changing ideas about Buddhist thought and spiritual practice.

Milwaukee mayor Daniel Hoan believed the best argument for socialism was a city government that worked.

Burroughs drew on the leading Maya scholarship of his day, much of which has since been overturned.