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Reading Jane Austen

I’ve been reading Austen since childhood, and I am only half joking when I say that if you put me under light hypnosis, I could probably recite Pride and Prejudice word for word in its entirety. Between...

Jenny Davidson | 13 Jul 2017

White House in turmoil shows why Trump’s no CEO

Originally posted on The Conversation, Bert Spector, author of Discourse on Leadership, explains how recent White House turmoil relates to leadership theory

Bert A. Spector | 13 Jul 2017

Team Meetings or Ritualized Events? How (Not) to Build Effective Leadership Teams

Originally posted on Leaders at Work In the first few minutes of President Donald Trump’s inaugural cabinet meeting, the President seemingly encouraged all participants to, one by one, offer their allegiance,...

Bert A. Spector | 10 Jul 2017

Disenfranchisement: A Historical Tool of Racial Exclusion

Racial inequality is alive and well in America, and conservatives are strategically dismantling one of the greatest tools in the arsenal against persistent injustices: the vote. The expansion and contraction...

Andrea Flynn | 6 Jul 2017

A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family 1600 – 2000

It was in the 1970s, in the course of some local history research in the London Borough of Camden, that I discovered quite by chance a grave in the old churchyard of St-John-at-Hampstead, in which Jane...

Deirdre LeFaye | 6 Jul 2017

Forgotten Lives and Universal Lessons

Assaf Likhovski, author of Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel, tells us more about his latest book...

Assaf Likhovski | 3 Jul 2017

Islam Instrumentalized: Religion and Politics in Historical Perspective

In this book, economist Jean-Philippe Platteau addresses the question: does Islam, the religion of Muslims, bear some responsibility for a lack of economic development in the countries in which it dominates?

Jean-Philippe Platteau | 29 Jun 2017

Rising Sea Levels – Predicting the Future

Timothy H. Dixon author of Curbing Catastrophe is a Professor of Geosciences at the University of South Florida, Tampa. In his newest article Tim considers a geological time scale to discuss if we can predict when the world will see a meteoric rise in sea level, or if we are already witnessing the beginning of this rise

Timothy H. Dixon | 22 Jun 2017

“Bad Muslims” and Other Manifestations of a Simple Mindset

In the hours and days following the June 3 rampage on London Bridge and Borough Market – a number of political leaders issued calls for travel bans and internment camps for Muslims. Predictable, maybe,...

Bert A. Spector | 21 Jun 2017

Technology and the Liberal Arts

Michael Filimowicz and Veronika Tzankova introduce their recent title, Teaching Computational Creativity.

Michael Filimowicz, Veronika Tzankova | 20 Jun 2017

Culture and Risky Behavior

In contemporary western society, risky behavior by male adolescents is seen as maladaptive for the individual and a serious social problem. It may lead to injury or death, delinquent and/or illegal behavior,...

David F. Lancy | 16 Jun 2017

How to be Irresistible

Originally posted on Tact Technology In commercials for AXE deodorant, popular with adolescent boys, its qualities are always advertised in roughly the same way: by showing that a man – however unattractive...

Maarten Derksen | 15 Jun 2017