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  • 16 Oct 2015
    John Suler

    Cutting the Gordian Interknot

    John Suler, the author of Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric, on how we might respond to the way our lives have become tangled up in the digital world.

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  • 15 Oct 2015
    Douglas Porpora

    Objectivity and Neutrality

    At one point in my book Reconstructing Sociology, I ask readers to consider a question that goes back to Isaiah Berlin. I would like to start by posing it now also to you: Which of the following is the most objective statement about the Holocaust: (i) In World War II, six million Jews lost their […]

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  • 14 Oct 2015

    The Puzzle of Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway is cemented in American legend, but behind his terse fiction and complicated personal life lurks an enigmatic man. The publication of his letters offers lovers of his work the chance to put together the puzzle that was Hemingway–the complicated family man, confident young writer, and brash correspondent was a challenge to figure out. Start digging deeper with The […]

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  • 13 Oct 2015

    The Cement of Civil Society

    Mario Diani, the author of The Cement of Civil Society, answers questions about his book and how to understand social movements and civil society.

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  • 12 Oct 2015

    How Apparel Made the Atlantic World

    Robert DuPlessis, the author of The Material Atlantic, answers questions about the textile industry in the early modern period, the rise of Atlantic trade, and the birth of fashion--they're all connected!

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  • 9 Oct 2015
    Surabhi Ranganathan

    Techno-Utopia of the Deep

    Quietly, as yet watched only by a few, a storm is brewing. Seabed mining – the recovery of minerals from the floor of the deep ocean – is passing from the realm of fantasy to that of fact. The International Seabed Authority (ISA), established in 1994 under the United Nations Convention on the Law of […]

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  • 8 Oct 2015
    Jerry Evensky

    Who Was Adam Smith?

    Jerry Evensky, the author of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, clarifies how to read Smith's work not simply as economics, but as a wider piece of social science.

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  • 7 Oct 2015

    Traveling with Hemingway

    We know you’ve been waiting for it…Volume 3 of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway is almost here! From meeting publishers in New York to sportfishing in Cuba to watching Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls, Hemingway’s letters to family, friends, and colleagues from 1926 to 1929 paint a vivid portrait of an adventurous man always on the move, always […]

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