by Alice Evans
Alice Evans, a social scientist writing The Great Gender Divergence for Princeton, threads her research on why patriarchy took such different shapes across world regions — warrior fraternities, why alliances kept collapsing over sexual rivalry, what migration does to women's status — using evidence from history and fieldwork. Provocative by design, and more interesting for it.
July 13, 2026
Scott Alexander's team publishes its plan for AI going well, Joel Mokyr defends his Nobel thesis, and Ted Gioia argues the Odyssey belongs in the music department.
April 13, 2026
Experimental History on overlooked paths to impact, Dario Amodei's five-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, and Ethan Mollick on what just happened in AI.
March 30, 2026
Veritasium tells the story of antimatter's discovery, PBS Space Time asks if we can test quantum gravity, and Experimental History on why being serious matters.
