A Juneteenth celebration in Prospect Park in New York City in 2022. Michael Nagle/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images Combining history and memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s “On Juneteenth” offers a ...
Researchers have mapped hundreds of semantic categories to the tiny bits of the cortex that represent them in our thoughts and perceptions. What they discovered might change our view of memory. We ...
Robert Jacobs receives funding from the National Science Foundation. When asked the other day about a bakery near my home, I responded that I’d recently eaten its mouth-watering chocolate chip cookies ...
One of the peculiar characteristics of the vast body of Jain commentarial literature is the primacy given to artha, meaning, over sūtra, the root text itself. It is the task of the commentator—or, in ...
A crowd at the 13th Annual Juneteenth celebration in Prospect Park Brooklyn on June 20, 2022. Combining history and memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s “On Juneteenth” offers a moving history of African ...