Over the last several years, the phrase “narrative change” has consistently gained popularity within the social sector. It’s not hard to understand why either. We live in an exceedingly noisy era for ...

At a time when the industry of journalism finds itself under scrutiny, Boston University’s Power of Narrative Conference offers solace to those navigating its uncertainties. Nearly 400 early-career ...

The missing link between the humanities and the social sciences, the psychological and the social—and scholars and general readers. The war in Ukraine, says Ronald G. Suny, a leading historian of the ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On Wednesday, The New York Times gave us another installment in “The Long Run,” its series of biographical profiles of the ...

One of the frustrating things about the debt ceiling debate has been dealing with the competing narratives spun by those supporting the various positions. It isn't that these narratives are ...

Molly Worthen’s Spellbound is an elegant, witty, readable, original, and deeply troubling book. A professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Worthen has spent two decades ...