Leann Davis Alspaugh

The interdisciplinary journal, published three times a year by UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, features eight thematic essays, plus a rich array of additional content.

Is digital life enabling humans to extend their capabilities and potentials? Or is it somehow diminishing our humanity? UVA’s interdisciplinary journal examines “The Human and the Digital.”

The Hedgehog Review’s fall issue asks, “With apologies to Francis Fukuyama, is it time to declare the end of the end of history?”

The latest edition of the interdisciplinary journal published by UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture asks the basic question, “What are cities for?”

To capture some sense of the self at this post-modern moment, several contributors take on various cultural perplexities bound up with some of our widely shared attitudes, preoccupations and often-unrecognized norms.

With science increasingly drawn into the culture wars, The Hedgehog Review, an interdisciplinary journal published by UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, focuses on the cultural contradictions of modern science.

In its summer issue the interdisciplinary journal published by UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture explores the many challenges to the meritocratic ideal.

If, as editor Jay Tolson points out, work is so central to Americans’ identity and happiness, how are we dealing with the cultural as well as economic consequences of “precarity”?

Is religion being displaced in the modern world by the forces of science and reason, as Max Weber suggested? Or are notions of the sacred adapting to modern realities? The Hedgehog Review’s fall issue explores these themes.