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  • 14 Jul 2015
    Aaron A. Dhir

    Diversity in the Corporate Boardroom

    Who governs the modern business corporation? Global statistics reveal the ubiquity of male-dominated business leadership, a fact that has caused heated debate in scholarly, policy, and practitioner-based circles. In my new book, Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity, I explore the lack of gender representation in corporate boardrooms. A number of countries have pursued regulation in an effort […]

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  • 10 Jul 2015

    An Interview with Arrigo Opocher and Ian Steedman

    Watch an interview with the author of Full Industry Equilibrium. This highly original book develops a systematic zero-net-profit comparative statics theory of the firm that challenges many widely held views in microeconomics. It builds a bridge between the marginalist long-run theory of the firm and Sraffian theory to create a unified theoretical framework that explains how firms react […]

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  • 9 Jul 2015
    Cody Marrs

    Frederick Douglass and the Long Civil War

    As debates rage across the American South about the Confederate flag's place in our country's past and present, Cody Marrs, the author of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War, contemplates the abiding conflict created by the American Civil War and the larger global fight for freedom.

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  • 8 Jul 2015
    Wallace Arthur

    Human Evolution

    Here’s the question that I raised at the end of my previous post: Does human evolution require some additional, special, explanation that does not apply to the rest of our kingdom? With regard to the physical human body, the two great founders of the theory of natural selection were agreed that no special explanation is […]

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  • 7 Jul 2015
    Jesse Keskiaho

    Images and the Images of Dreams in the Early Middle Ages

    In Francia, probably in the late 780’s, a monk called John had a troubling vision about the death of Christianity. Charlemagne, king of the Franks (768–814), concerned with reforms of the church and of Christian learning in his realms, was understandably troubled by the vision, and solicited Pope Hadrian I’s (d. 795) opinion. In his […]

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  • 6 Jul 2015

    Catch Up on Your Religious Studies

    Catch up on the latest interviews with authors from our religious studies list.

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  • 4 Jul 2015

    Behind Lincoln’s Ethics

    Thomas L. Carson, the author of Lincoln's Ethics, describes what drew him as a philosopher to studying one of the most prominent presidents in American history. And you can check an excerpt from his new book.

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  • 3 Jul 2015
    George Thomas

    A Nation with the Soul of a Church

    George Thomas, the author of The Founders and the Idea of a National University, reflects on how the concept and birth of American independence informed the educational system in the United States.

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