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The New York Times Endorses John Kerry’s Infrastructure Bank

Using today’s prime editorial space to endorse the bipartisan backed BUILD Act, the New York Times called the bill – presented last week by Senators Kerry, Hutchinson, and Warner and created under...

21 Mar 2011

Physics Fridays with Fuchs: A Wonderful New Slant On the Story

Every Friday during the month of March, This Side of the Pond will feature correspondence drawn from Coming of Age With Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea, a collection of more than 500 letters...

18 Mar 2011

Show Us Your March Madness!

It’s time for the Big Dance.  For the next three weeks, March Madness will sweep the nation, and fans nationwide are gearing up for sleepless nights, office bracket pools, and campus-wide rallies—all...

15 Mar 2011

Physics Fridays with Fuchs: Honesty from an Experimentalist?

Every Friday during the month of March, This Side of the Pond will feature correspondence drawn from Coming of Age With Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea, a collection of more than 500 letters...

11 Mar 2011

Capitalism, For and Against: An Introduction to a Feminist Debate

While political philosophy and feminist theory have rarely examined in detail how capitalism affects the lives of women, the recently published Capitalism, For and Against: A Feminist Debate sees authors...

Nancy Holmstrom, Ann Cudd | 8 Mar 2011

Financial Times on Ebner’s Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy

Tony Barber calls Michael Ebner’s Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy an “excellent study of the Mussolini era” that “gives a convincing account, based on much original...

7 Mar 2011

Physics Fridays with Fuchs: Jazz, Quantum Entanglement, and a Lunchtime Buffet

Every Friday during the month of March, This Side of the Pond will feature correspondence drawn from Coming of Age With Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea, a collection of more than 500 letters...

4 Mar 2011

David Norton’s BYU Forum Lecture "The English Word"

Watch The King James Bible author David Norton’s lecture “The English Word,” courtesy of  byutv. Read More ?

25 Feb 2011

Dirk Vandewalle on Qaddafi for the NYTimes

Dirk Vandewalle, author of A History of Modern Libya, sheds light on the many incarnations of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in an NYTimes op-ed. Read More ?

24 Feb 2011

W.E.B. Du Bois – Black Activist Radical

Black radical historian, scholar and agitator-prophet W.E.B. Du Bois (who was born during Andrew Johnson’s administration in 1868 and died shortly before Lyndon Johnson’s presidency in 1963)...

Michael A. Lawrence | 23 Feb 2011

The Nazi Third Reich as One Form of Empire

Shelley Baranowski, the author of Nazi Empire, discusses German nationalism and the rise of the Third Reich.

Shelley Baranowski | 22 Feb 2011

Who Was the Best Orator of All Time?

When he created his guidelines for orators, the Roman philosopher Cicero claimed that great speeches should contain three things: technique, substance, and passion. Speakers should use classical techniques that emphasize logic and lyrical rhythm; they should speak with knowledge and moral purpose; and they should be able to project character and emotion when appropriate.

17 Feb 2011