Society increasingly accepts gender identity as existing along a spectrum. The study of people, and their remains, shows that sex should be viewed the same way.
The Skeletons in the Museum ClosetCan natural history museums justify their collections of human remains?
In Spain’s Silence, Francisco Franco’s Memory EchoesThe dictator’s ghost has been haunting Spain for more than 40 years. It is high time for the country to confront its history.
Confronting the Specter of Cultural AppropriationFrom Halloween costumes to haute couture, ethnic foods to movies, the danger of appropriating another culture seems to be everywhere. How do we weigh the difference between celebrating and stealing someone else’s culture?
The Double Lives of Chinese Foreign CorrespondentsChinese journalists reporting from abroad grapple with a conflicted identity, facing both censorship and the perception that their work often serves nationalistic goals.
Ancestry Tests Pose a Threat to Our Social FabricCommercial DNA testing isn’t just harmless entertainment. It’s keeping alive ideas that deserve to die.
Grief Can Make Us WiseGrief makes sense of loss and opens us to rebuilding all that is meaningful in life. Society would benefit if public grief were acknowledged more.
The Shameful Persistence of White Supremacy in the United StatesThis loathsome worldview continues to have an outsize impact on U.S. culture. Can Black Lives Matter and other progressive movements do anything about it?
Are Religious People More Moral?Cultures around the world share the belief that atheists lack morality. The evidence, however, tells a different story.
Is the United Nations Broken?Anthropologists turned the U.N. into a field site. Their studies highlight the U.N.’s fragility, but we shouldn’t give up on the organization just yet.
