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Pandemic Opportunities

There is no question that COVID-19 has brought tremendous suffering around the globe. We have lost over one million humans to the pandemic. Some who have been infected have long-lasting and devastating...

Roel Snieder, Jen Schneider | 28 Jan 2021

The Study of Living Control Systems: A Guide to Doing Research on Purpose

How should we go about trying to understand the behavior of people and other living organisms? One way is to look for its causes. This is the approach taken by most scientific psychologists and is the...

Richard S. Marken | 27 Jan 2021

Climate and American Literature

As I scripted the outline for this collection, the United States held the questionable honor of being the only country in the world to have withdrawn from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, to date the...

Michael Boyden | 26 Jan 2021

Walden and Environmental Justice

Thoreau’s Religion is a book about Henry David Thoreau and environmental justice. But Stanley Cavell put the question well when he asked, in the preface to The Senses of Walden (Viking Press, 1972),...

Alda Balthrop-Lewis | 26 Jan 2021

The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain

While there are no timeless arguments in the history of political thought, there may indeed be perennial questions. If anything is recurrent throughout Western thought, it is likely to be the abhorrence...

Max Skjönsberg | 25 Jan 2021

Neoliberalism in the Guise of Humanism and Democracy

This book is part of a critical educational psychology commitment to engage in ideological, cultural, political, and philosophical discussions about the application of psychology in and outside of schools....

Stephen Vassallo | 25 Jan 2021

A Poem from Romanticism: Friedrich Schiller’s Nänia

Friedrich Schiller’s little poem is one of the greatest works of German Classicism, the revival of Greek thought and literary forms centered in the Weimar that Goethe and Schiller made famous, but its...

Michael Ferber | 22 Jan 2021

Disability as diversity

In the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has fully emerged, bringing a new vocabulary for understanding disability, that grew out of, and continues to grow with, the disability rights...

Essaka Joshua | 21 Jan 2021

The Economic Slump of Covid-19 in Historical Perspective

The world economy is experiencing, because of the Covid-crisis and the associated lockdowns, its worst slump in peacetime since the great depression of the 1930s. A look at the main economic dislocations...

Andrés Solimano | 19 Jan 2021

A chess game

Emili is an amateur chess player. Occasionally, he plays chess in international opens, which for diverse reasons are enticing for both local non-professional club players and professional players from...

Angel Blanch | 18 Jan 2021

Why I Edited Romanticism: 100 Poems

As an undergraduate in 1964 I took a seminar in the English Romantics (the six male poets then considered canonical) and was imprinted like a chick by the first poet we read, William Blake. ...

Michael Ferber | 15 Jan 2021

The Importance of Local Content Policies in Post-COVID-19 Recovery in Global Energy Markets

The year 2020 will long be remembered as a year in which global energy markets witnessed significant upheavals due to the effects of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Oil prices fell...

Damilola S. Olawuyi | 14 Jan 2021