Jessica Riskin

Jessica Riskin is a history professor at Stanford University, where she teaches courses in European intellectual and cultural history and the history of science. She is the author, most recently, of The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick (2016).

I’m Not a Conservative, But Please Stop Calling Trumpism “Conservative”

Trump may finally be going, at least for now, but Trumpism is here to stay. So, let’s be careful what we call it, which shapes how we understand it. Each time a commentator refers to Trumpism as “conservative” — probably hundreds ...

I’m Not a Conservative, But Please Stop Calling Trumpism “Conservative”

JESSICA RISKIN

Evolution Wars: The Saga Continues

Jessica Riskin offers a revisionist history of evolutionary biology....

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

HISTORY

Pinker’s Pollyannish Philosophy and Its Perfidious Politics

POLITICS

PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The Value of W, or, Interdisciplinary Engagements on Culture

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY