Arnold Glass, author of Cognition: A Neuroscience Approach (2016), explores the role of mazes in psychology and cognitive development.
Jürg Steiner, author of The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy (2012), examines lessons learnt from the recent Swiss Referendum.
We talk to Roy Perrett, visiting Professor of Indian Philosophy at Ashoka University about his new book, An Introduction to Indian Philosophy.
Paul Gowder gives a comprehensive new theory of the political and legal ideal known as “the rule of law”: what it means and why it matters.
The recent shootings of unarmed blacks have been labeled by some as “21st -century lynchings.” Karlos K. Hill examines the meaning behind this characterization, whether it’s inflammatory, and why the discussion matters. Hill is author of the forthcoming Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory.
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...