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Professor Andreas Maercker
What will become of those currently experiencing the wars we see in the media? Take the wars in Ukraine, Gaza/Israel and Sudan, for example. Will the children be permanently scarred into adulthood, and will the communities be too? My book Historical Trauma: Psychological Processes, Contexts, and Healing collects evidence from psychology and the social sciences […]
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Peter Fibiger Bang
Roman historians habitually think of the Empire as a precursor of Europe and the West. But most historians of Europe see it differently. They see Europe as a result of the failure of attempts to create a new universal empire after the model of Rome. This is a paradox, barely noticed, that cries out to […]
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Julianne House, Dániel Z. Kádár
1: Overview In this blog series, we will provide an overview of the representative features of Chinese politeness in daily interaction. Instead of discussing conventional topics, such as the use of honorifics in business meetings, the famous concept of ‘face’ and other phenomena typically mentioned regarding Chinese politeness, we intend to draw attention to seemingly […]
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Robert B. Williams
Most Americans (and economists) are clueless regarding the racial wealth gap A recent study asked over a thousand people their perceptions of the wealth gap between White and Black Americans. Respondents were invited to compare the wealth of a typical Black household assuming White households held $100, both currently and in 1963. They could choose […]
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Atinuke O. Adediran
In the summer of 2020, corporate America found its voice on race. Across every sector, from finance to retail to tech, corporations and their executives issued public statements proclaiming solidarity with Black communities and pledging to confront racial inequality. I watched this unfold like many others—partly inspired by the apparent shift. After all, the Business […]
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Kate Baldwin
Let me describe the activities of an organization leading advocacy for liberal democracy in Zambia in recent years. When politicians spoke of changing the country’s constitution to end presidential term limits, it organized a civil society coalition to protest. When the police threw the opposition leader in jail for four months on charges of treason, […]
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David L. Weimer
In the 1990s I had a “driveway moment.” Public radio had a story about conflict within the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) over the geographic allocation of livers for transplantation. Congress has delegated responsibility for organ allocation rules to the OPTN, an organization of transplant centers, organ procurement organizations, and histocompatibility laboratories, rather than […]
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Nicolas Treich
Animals are all around us. They give us food, clothing, and companionship. We use them for entertainment and research. And they are countless in the wild. Human activities affect them, often without us realizing it. Most importantly, many animals are sentient: they can feel pain and emotions. In other words, they can experience welfare. Economics […]
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Professor Andreas Maercker
What will become of those currently experiencing the wars we see in the media? Take the wars in Ukraine, Gaza/Israel and Sudan, for example. Will the children be permanently scarred into adulthood, and will the communities be too? My book Historical Trauma: Psychological Processes, Contexts, and Healing collects evidence from psychology and the social sciences […]
Read More
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Peter Fibiger Bang
Roman historians habitually think of the Empire as a precursor of Europe and the West. But most historians of Europe see it differently. They see Europe as a result of the failure of attempts to create a new universal empire after the model of Rome. This is a paradox, barely noticed, that cries out to […]
Read More
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Julianne House, Dániel Z. Kádár
1: Overview In this blog series, we will provide an overview of the representative features of Chinese politeness in daily interaction. Instead of discussing conventional topics, such as the use of honorifics in business meetings, the famous concept of ‘face’ and other phenomena typically mentioned regarding Chinese politeness, we intend to draw attention to seemingly […]
Read More
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Robert B. Williams
Most Americans (and economists) are clueless regarding the racial wealth gap A recent study asked over a thousand people their perceptions of the wealth gap between White and Black Americans. Respondents were invited to compare the wealth of a typical Black household assuming White households held $100, both currently and in 1963. They could choose […]
Read More
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Atinuke O. Adediran
In the summer of 2020, corporate America found its voice on race. Across every sector, from finance to retail to tech, corporations and their executives issued public statements proclaiming solidarity with Black communities and pledging to confront racial inequality. I watched this unfold like many others—partly inspired by the apparent shift. After all, the Business […]
Read More
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Kate Baldwin
Let me describe the activities of an organization leading advocacy for liberal democracy in Zambia in recent years. When politicians spoke of changing the country’s constitution to end presidential term limits, it organized a civil society coalition to protest. When the police threw the opposition leader in jail for four months on charges of treason, […]
Read More
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David L. Weimer
In the 1990s I had a “driveway moment.” Public radio had a story about conflict within the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) over the geographic allocation of livers for transplantation. Congress has delegated responsibility for organ allocation rules to the OPTN, an organization of transplant centers, organ procurement organizations, and histocompatibility laboratories, rather than […]
Read More
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Nicolas Treich
Animals are all around us. They give us food, clothing, and companionship. We use them for entertainment and research. And they are countless in the wild. Human activities affect them, often without us realizing it. Most importantly, many animals are sentient: they can feel pain and emotions. In other words, they can experience welfare. Economics […]
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