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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

Mass Consumption Isn’t Just All-American — The Nazis Had It, Too

Today, no one can deny the importance of consumption to the American economy.  By some counts, consumer spending constitutes over seventy percent of our GNP, and the countdown to special winter shopping...

S. Jonathan Wiesen | 14 Feb 2011

Technology Drives History, It Just Doesn’t Drive it Very Far

Here’s an interesting thing. Many professors despise the idea that technology drives history. “Technological determinism,” they say, is a cardinal intellectual mistake like belief in the tooth fairy....

Marshall Poe | 7 Feb 2011

The Israeli Economy: Hi-tech, Gas, Dutch Disease and More

The Israeli economy is characterized by extremes: fast growth, sophisticated technological development, large defense spending as well as poverty and inequality. The discovery of very large gas reserves...

Paul Rivlin | 7 Feb 2011

Happy 100th, Principia Mathematica Part II

100 years ago, Cambridge published a book that transformed the study of mathematics and laid the foundations for the computer age. The Principia Mathematica is the most famous work ever published on the...

31 Jan 2011