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Welcome to “Gladiator of the Week.” The blog expands on the information in my book, The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games by exploring some of the known realities of Roman gladiatorial combat and setting the record straight about this form of spectacle, which is widely misunderstood in modern culture.
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Watch author Robert Crosnoe discuss his research into the effects of high school bullying and his book, Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education.
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Football may get the highest television ratings, but no one should doubt that baseball is America’s most literary sport. The game has a natural affinity to narrative: Each contest unfolds like a measured story, and the gaps in the action leave room for embroidery of all kinds. And embroidery there has been, with the romance […]
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Just for opening day, here’s The Cambridge Companion to Baseball coeditor Lenny Cassuto talking about the national pastime, its two pasts, and its troubled present. Play ball!
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Pregame for opening day at The Cambridge Companion to Baseball book launch this Thursday evening at Borders Columbus Circle. Game time is 7 pm. BYO peanuts and Cracker Jacks.
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Legal education reform is crucial to the project of promoting “the possibility of justice.” And reformers of the profession have long focused on changing the nature and culture of law school to create more public-minded professionals.
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The history of natural resource use and development, from the Agricultural Transition 12,000 years ago to the present, suggests that humankind has had to surmount successive scarcity problems: From Malthusian population-land “traps” to fossil fuel scarcity, and now, ecological scarcity.
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Every Friday during the month of March, This Side of the Pond will feature correspondence drawn from Coming of Age With Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea, a collection of more than 500 letters between physics luminary Christopher A. Fuchs and his friends, mentors, and other pioneers in the field. Our final installment is […]
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