The Berlin Journal

by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
An excerpt from Adam Sachs's novel about G.W. Leibniz and his encounter with a blind astronomer.

by Martin Puchner
The curious history of a German-American idea

by Jared Farmer
Ancient trees in modern times

by Ronald Radano
We are all African, when we listen.

by George T. Frampton
The cap-and-trade mechanism of taxing and regulating greenhouse-gas fuels has been stalled in the US since 2010. It's now making a comeback.

by Emily Apter
A critical meditation on the trials and tribulations of deliberative democracy now

by Herman Mark Schwartz
What are the possible economic causes of populist politics? Begin with the recent development of disintegrated supply chains.

by Jesse Ball
A short story about a red bird

Text by Pavel Pyś
Artist Lucy Raven is cinematically drawn to the scientific and industrial worlds of the American West

by Peter Holquist
How the Russian Empire helped to create the laws of war