A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it

By countering the racist fixations that have plagued stories of Indian culture, they hope to reverse the “invisibility” that many feel.

For centuries, we’ve given lavish attention to the specifics of punishment, and left Heaven woefully under-sketched.

Why researchers can't agree after decades of studies

The sociologist Margaret Hagerman spent two years embedded in upper-middle-class white households, listening in on conversations about race. By Joe Pinsker. (Sept. 4, 2018)

It’s tempting to see each of the country’s creeping public disasters as an epidemic. But an epidemic would probably be a lot easier to solve.

Who is we?

Genetic ancestry tests are often advertised as a tool to uncover new connections to diverse cultures and ancestries, but new research from the University of British Columbia has found people tend to pick and choose which races they identify with based on preconceived biases. Ancestry testing is part of a rapidly growing, billion-dollar industry that claims to use DNA to tell people about the parts of the world from which their ancestors originated.

A recent study finds that young people who get financial support from their parents have greater professional success, highlighting one way social inequality is transmitted from one generation to the next. “The question underlying this work was whether parental support gives adult children an advantage or hinders their development,” says Anna Manzoni, an associate professor of sociology at North Carolina State University and author of a paper on the work.

Photographs by Lewis Hine that shook up early 20th-Century labour laws among those sold at US auction.

The Berlin Wall has been down as long as it stood. One generation lived with the wall, one without it. But in many ways it is still a tale of two countries.

A number of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions about the subjects. By Alexandra Gedrose. (May 6, 2008)

Jennifer Wolch conceptualizes an urban theory that takes nonhumans seriously.

The urge is often involuntary—and has little to do with actual remorse.

Cooperation, mutual dependence, trust – even in killing others – are building blocks of political order, the foundational elements of states.

You don’t have to dislike children to see the harms done by having them. There is a moral case against procreation.

Expert Selwyn Raab on how September 11th helped the Mob evade annihilation and rebuild into the 21st century

Implicit racial bias, measured across Europe.

We humans think we’re so special. To determine what sets us apart from the rest of the animal world, scientists investigate features that might be uniquely human, such as self-awareness or language. By Signe Dean. (May 26, 2017)