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Fifteen Questions: Christina Maranci on Medieval Armenian Churches, Crumbling Grandeur, and the Best Kardashian

By Rose C. Giroux

Fifteen Questions: Daniel L. Smail on Deep History, Lateral Learning, and Bike Lanes

Fifteen Questions: David Sinclair on Age Reversal, Exercise, and Immortal Yeast Cells

Fifteen Questions: Anna Wilson on Fanfiction, Medieval Literature, and Interdisciplinarity

Fifteen Questions: Reginald Dwayne Betts on Vulnerability, Collective Memory, and Freedom Reads

Are We Doing Friendship Wrong?

For Sara Jane Ho, Etiquette is Everywhere

An etiquette expert, Ho is best known as the host of the Netflix series “Mind Your Manners” and for founding Institute Sarita, China’s first finishing school.

Fifteen Questions: Theda Skocpol on The Election, The Ivory Tower, and The New England Patriots

The sociologist sat down with FM to discuss U.S. authoritarianism, campus protest, and her favorite football team.

For Alejandra Caraballo, the Next 4 Years Are About Survival

Caraballo anticipates dark days ahead for the trans community. “We are going to lose a lot of people,” she says. “I don’t want to sugarcoat it, these next four years are going to be about survival.”

Meet Nina Howe-Goldstein, the Real Hater of Cambridge, Mass.

When Howe-Goldstein transferred to Harvard, she expected to find a rigid academic environment. Then she heard about the $30,000 HUFPI scandal. “I thought to myself, ‘Wait, this place is a complete freak show, but I’m gonna have so much fun here,’” she says.