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Democratic Backsliding

5 days ago | daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. “Democratic backsliding,” writes political scientist Javier Corrales, is the term for “the process whereby existing democracies become less democratic.” This backsliding is one of the ways autocratization, the processes that move a country towards autocracy, occurs. Autocratization through coups and revolutions/insurrections are well-known phenomena.
The Legends of Charles G. Leland’s Aradia

1 week ago | daily.jstor.org | Angelica Frey

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. When he penned Aradia, Gospel of the Witches in 1899, Charles Godfrey Leland ended up writing a cornerstone text within the twentieth-century neo-pagan revival. In it, he asserted that his findings were based on an extant earth-based folk religion in northern Italy, whose figurehead was Aradia, a woman connected to the cult of the goddess Diana.
Toxic? But It Has a Leaf on the Label!

1 week ago | daily.jstor.org | Aissa Dearing |Rajiv Shah |Kelly Taylor

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. We thought we were slowing the chemical pollution crisis by swapping our bleach for non-toxic cleaning alternatives and ensuring our beauty products only have naturally derived ingredients. Yet, studies demonstrate that green cleaning products and common sustainable swaps still contain ingredients that are harmful to human life.
Garbage on the Final Frontier

1 week ago | daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. There isn’t a place on Earth we haven’t left our trash, from deepest ocean trench to highest mountain. And sixty-seven years on from Sputnik, it turns out we’ve dumped plenty of garbage outside of the Earth as well. Debris is so omnipresent in Earth orbit, warns Nicholas Peter of the International Space University, that it’s a serious threat to the ever-expanding space economy.
The Reptilian Renaissance

2 weeks ago | daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills
The Literary Inspirations for Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique

2 weeks ago | daily.jstor.org | Angelica Frey

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Throughout its five movements, Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique (1830) tells the story of a love-struck artist who overdoses on opium and descends into psychedelic madness.
Torpedo Bats, Magnetic Animals, and Challenging Physics

2 weeks ago | daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. A New Kind of Stick (NPR)by Bill ChappellIt might not seem like there’s much chance of improving on a piece of technology that’s basically a stick of wood. But torpedo bats, designed by a physicist, are changing how baseball is played. Why didn’t anyone think of this before?
Lesbians and the Lavender Scare

2 weeks ago | daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. When the US government targeted LGBTQ employees in the Lavender Scare of the 1950s, the most numerous victims were gay men. As historian Robert Byron Genter writes, lesbians were also driven out of federal jobs. But that was tricky because officials had trouble figuring out what a female homosexual might be.
The Undying Unicorn

2 weeks ago | daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In a trailer for the 2017 Frederick Wiseman documentary about the New York Public Library, a telephone reference librarian is seen gently informing a caller, “a unicorn, ahhh, is actually an imaginary animal.” Yet, in addition to being imaginary, unicorns also seem to be undying, a “species” that can’t go extinct.
How to be a Modern Autocrat

3 weeks ago | daily.jstor.org | Livia Gershon |Sergei Guriev |Daniel Treisman

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Twentieth-century dictators like Hitler and Mao ruled with violence, fear, repression, and ideology. They engaged in mass slaughter of groups perceived as enemies, publicized their attacks on dissidents to deter others, and kept their citizens from contact with the outside world through censorship and travel restrictions.