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‘Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography‘ by Julian Young in The New York Times Book Review: Whether we acknowledge it or not, we continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast...
First published in 1486–7, the Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for “The Hammer of Witches”) is the standard medieval text on witchcraft. A famous treatise, it attempted to systematically define and...
Robert E. McGlone, author of John Brown’s War Against Slavery, was a finalist for this year’s Lincoln Prize! Listen to his musings on “The Public Eye” with Al Vuona… Read More ?
We are defined by our preferences. But how do we arrive at those preferences, and how do we get what we want? Rachel Karniol, author of Social Development as Preference Management: How Infants, Children, and Parents Get What They Want from One Another, gives a glimpse into the power dynamics between children and parents - and the complex process of negotiation that goes into expressing one's wishes.
While the Gulf oil slick worsens, still spilling from a capsized wellhead and pressing ever closer to coastline towns, the blame game has exploded across the public sphere. Craig Collins, author of Toxic Loopholes: Failures and Future Prospects for Environmental Law, weighs in on the politicking to offer his vision of why this crisis demands a reconsideration of America’s heavy reliance on petroleum – economically, environmentally, and morally.
New York, NY: If you’re free this coming Sunday, May 2nd, Editors Cyrus Patell and Bryan Waterman are celebrating the publication of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York at the Bowery...
Last week, Bolivian President Evo Morales hosted a four-day summit on climate change – the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Attracting more than...
In Ravenna in Late Antiquity, Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis looks at one of the most important cities of late antique Europe over the course of 350 years – tracing its expansion as well as its artistic...
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day – the birth of the modern environmental movement – and a great moment to reflect on how far we’ve come since 1970. In a year that witnessed the failed...
Some say climate change is a farce. Some say the sky is falling. Now, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist tells the real story… Listen here to Dr. Burton Richter talk about Beyond Smoke and Mirrors on...
Congratulations to Prof. Ellen Bialystok and Dr. James Tully, winners of the $100,000 2010 Killam Prize – Canada’s most distinguished annual award for outstanding career achievements in health...
Cristina Mazzoni, author of the very cool, very new, She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon, bids happy birthday to Rome – and explains how the she-wolf became a potent symbol over the course of the past...
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