Richard Lewontin's Biology as Ideology exposes how economic and social forces shape our conception of biology, and how such an ideological commitment in scientific practices fails to realize science's potential to solve human problems.
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Holleman’s Dust Bowls of Empire analyzes the dustbowlification of the land as the predictable consequence of settler capitalist economies.
Body and Soul’s exploration of the vision of healthcare put forward by the Black Panther Party provides a way to imagine a healthier society.
In The Disordered Cosmos, physicist Prescod-Weinstein discusses what must change to allow Black girls and women to explore their curiosity.
Weaponization of data has buoyed the racist social order, but appropriate use of data can be powerfully emancipatory.
La science étatsunienne a longtemps aspiré à se présenter comme exceptionnelle. En 1966, l'historien Hunter Dupre a invité ses collègues à célébrer cet exceptionnalisme, selon lui, longtemps négligé. Plus d'un demi-siècle plus tard...
We are tumbling from a global pandemic into what could become an economic depression, all this while the climate crisis relentlessly unfolds in the shadow of the media. The need for meaningful and sincere answers on how to address these...
On April 26, 1986, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded, scattering highly radioactive materials into the surroundings. More radioactive effluent was expelled by the fire ignited by the explosion...
American science has aspired, for a long time, to present itself as exceptional. In 1966, the historian Hunter Dupre invited his colleagues to celebrate, in his view, this long-neglected exceptionalism. More than half-a-century on...
In recent years it has become increasingly clear that capitalism is not just a system of wage labor, but a system that thrives by exploiting and extracting value from labor through any means necessary: gigging subcontractors, interns...