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Yearly Archives: 2016

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  • 29 Jun 2016
    Robert S. Singh

    A Journey with Robert S. Singh Through Barack Obama’s Two Presidential Terms

    With After Obama: Renewing American Leadership, Restoring Global Order , Robert S. Singh argues that the US influence has weakened and contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal values. Scroll through this timeline to learn more about the key events in President Obama’s presidency which Singh covers in his book. […]

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  • 28 Jun 2016
    Stephen M. Stahl

    Is Donald Trump a Psychopath?

    Renowned psychiatrist Stephen M. Stahl answers the question so many have been wondering.

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  • 28 Jun 2016
    Michael Glassman

    Technological tools and psychological tools of the Internet

    Choosing a platform to use for integrating Internet tools into educational settings can be a difficult and complex task involving consideration and balancing of a number of competing factors. Is the goal of the anticipated educational activities transfer of specific knowledge/skills?  Is it to increase problem solving capabilities in an information age? Is it to […]

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  • 24 Jun 2016
    Teacher Autonomy
    Inez De Florio

    Teacher Autonomy

    Cambridge author Inez De Florio discusses teacher autonomy in relation to her new book Effective Teaching and Successful Learning.

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  • 23 Jun 2016

    Shakespeare as Interpreted by the Next Generation of Great Playwrights

    In honor of the 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death this past April, we devoted the entire month to the Bard, featuring a different Shakespeare-themed blogpost, interview, competition or other feature each day. When I thought it would be a good idea to have a stage play competition, I had a feeling there would be […]

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  • 22 Jun 2016
    Future
    Richard Haier, James R. Flynn, Robert J. Sternberg

    How much smarter will we be in 100 years?

    Three Cambridge University Press authors and leading experts on Intelligence take on our virtual roundtable on 'Human Intelligence'. In the Final week of the six part series asks the question 'What does the future hold in the research of intelligence? How much smarter will we be in 100 years’ time?'

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  • 21 Jun 2016
    Yoram Hazony

    Yoram Hazony Reflects on the Biblical Philosophies of Leo Strauss

    The Jewish philosopher Leo Strauss held that the Hebrew Bible should be regarded as being in “radical opposition” to philosophy and as its “antagonist.” This is an influential view, which has contributed much to the ongoing omission of the Bible from most accounts of the history of political philosophy. In this essay, I examine Strauss’s […]

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  • 20 Jun 2016
    David Staines

    Reading Alice Munro

    David Staines, author of The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro, sheds light on how the Nobel Prize winner views her work

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