Like so many publishers in new media, we’ve had to confront the question: how can we turn ToM into a sustainable, financially independent enterprise?

A week of truly epic, virtuosic horse-shit reached its tragic crescendo today, with the murder of at least […]

It has been over thirty years since Joan C. Scott let the historical profession know that gender is a “useful category of analysis.” (How many academic journal articles get their own Wikipedia page? Not many I assume.)

Well, in throwing out this question on Twitter, we learned a lot. Not all of it surprising — graduate […]

There are two dirty secrets about grad school, at least where money is concerned.

Cockpunches. Octopuses and otters. Shoe polish. Minnesota Mean. What the fuck is happening?

But whatever a gift is and however we define it, we tend to think that we know what it is. We assume that when you or I say “gift” we are talking about the same thing—that what we mean is a given.

This post is a very tentative sketch of a new research project, building on the ideas explored in […]