Most Recent Pieces:

• Why utopias still matter by Jonathan Esty on Engelsberg Ideas
• Against the great forces of history: What Ada Palmer’s University of Chicago Papal election LARP can teach us about our own future by Cory Doctorow on Medium
• Michelangelo and all that by David Butterfield on The Critic
• Inventing the Renaissance is mentioned by Ezra Klein in this episode of The Rest is Politics.
• Here Are the Finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards: Best Related Work: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer (University of Chicago Press US, Head of Zeus UK)