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Objectivity and Neutrality

At one point in my book Reconstructing Sociology, I ask readers to consider a question that goes back to Isaiah Berlin. I would like to start by posing it now also to you: Which of the following is the...

Douglas Porpora | 15 Oct 2015

The Puzzle of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway is cemented in American legend, but behind his terse fiction and complicated personal life lurks an enigmatic man. The publication of his letters offers lovers of his work the chance...

14 Oct 2015

The Cement of Civil Society

Mario Diani, the author of The Cement of Civil Society, answers questions about his book and how to understand social movements and civil society.

13 Oct 2015

How Apparel Made the Atlantic World

Robert DuPlessis, the author of The Material Atlantic, answers questions about the textile industry in the early modern period, the rise of Atlantic trade, and the birth of fashion--they're all connected!

12 Oct 2015

Techno-Utopia of the Deep

Quietly, as yet watched only by a few, a storm is brewing. Seabed mining – the recovery of minerals from the floor of the deep ocean – is passing from the realm of fantasy to that of fact. The International...

Surabhi Ranganathan | 9 Oct 2015

Who Was Adam Smith?

Jerry Evensky, the author of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, clarifies how to read Smith's work not simply as economics, but as a wider piece of social science.

Jerry Evensky | 8 Oct 2015

Traveling with Hemingway

We know you’ve been waiting for it…Volume 3 of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway is almost here! From meeting publishers in New York to sportfishing in Cuba to watching Pamplona’s Running...

7 Oct 2015

Why Write about Colour?

My forthcoming book on Colours and Colour Vision concerns many different aspects of this subject matter: how colours arise, how one might see and experience them, and how they have been used and talked...

Daniel Kernell | 6 Oct 2015

Pope Francis Has Lifted Us Up

Gerald J. Beyer, an associate professor of Christian Ethics at Villanova University and contributor to Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society explores the impact of Pope Francis' visit to the US.

Gerald J. Beyer | 5 Oct 2015

Cyberpsychology in the Man Cave

John Suler, author of Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric (2016), takes us on a cathartic journey through cyberspace to his 'man cave'.

John Suler | 2 Oct 2015

Pope Francis visits Philadelphia for the 2015 World Meeting of Families

Philadelphia’s year-long preparations for Pope Francis’ visit to the city for the 2015 World Meeting of Families (WMOF) bore fruit when the pope, weary but still joyfully greeting all he saw, arrived...

Nick Rademacher, Tony Godzieba | 30 Sep 2015

Alien Cattle

Mario Melletti, the author of Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour of Wild Cattle, discusses how water buffalo introduced into a new landscape can wreck havoc on the environment.

Mario Melletti | 28 Sep 2015