Anyone who has taken care of a newborn can understand treating them at little more than a digestive system. Most newborns are either placid babies or colicky babies. Placid babies eat and sleep. Colicky...
The major motion picture Lincoln, which focused on the political struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, recently exposed popular audiences to the problem of emancipation. There is a lot to like about...
Sylvester A. Johnson, the author of African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom (2015), explores what Black history reveals about the larger state of national security and American Islam.
John Suler, author of Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric (2015) explores 'dissociated physicality' in our ever increasing world of tech dependence.
Author Michel De Vroey gives us an insight into his latest book A History of Macroeconomics from Keynes to Lucas and Beyond (2016).
In author Mario Melletti's previous post he explored the impact of feral water buffalo on Australian ecosystems. Here, he talks about the main steps that have brought us the wide range of modern cattle breeds through the process of domestication of their ancestor, the aurochs.
A disconcerting ambiguity: a note on the Spanish noun escatología, and adjective escatológico Eschatology: Branch of theology concerning the end of the world Scatology: Scientific study of excrement Spanish...
We mark Black History Month with a series of blog articles recalling some of the important people and events in African American history.
In this age of narcissism, the proliferation of politicians with significant narcissistic personality features is dramatic. In his new book, Narcissism and Politics: Dreams of Glory, Jerrold Post systematically applies the understanding of narcissism to the world of politics.
Edward Lawler, Shane Thye and Jeongkoo Yoon, authors of Order on the Edge of Chaos (2015) examine Thomas Hobbes' problem of social order.
Uriel Abulof, author of The Mortality and Morality of Nations (2015), explores liberty and death in a time of terror.
We mark Black History Month with a series of blog articles recalling some of the important people and events in African American history.