via The New York Times, from Nicholas Kristof’s Our Politics May Be All in Our Head: We all know that liberals and conservatives are far apart on health care. But in the way their brains work? Even...
In his Huffington Post column, Whatley draws on the work of our own Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler to describe some dimensions of the Tea Party Movement: In Authoritarianism & Polarization in...
Via Foreign Affairs, Lucan Way author of Competitive Authoritarianism on Ukraine’s still-disputed election. In 2004, the world watched as the Orange Revolution unfolded in Ukraine, pitting an insurgent,...
The New York Times reports on a Penn-Wharton School study of what makes an article get shared most, or go “viral.” The results are surprising and refreshing. Apparently, you guys like science!...
The massive, comprehensive Dictionary of Irish Biography was awarded the 2009 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) for Best Multivolume Reference work in the Humanities...
Via Marshall Poe’s New Books in History, featuring Brian Balogh’s A Government Out of Sight. Americans don’t like “big government” right? Not exactly. In the Early Republic (1789 to the...
When restoration of a Michelangelo painting in St. Peter’s at the Vatican revealed the later addition of some elements, the resulting dispute pit art against theology and history. Michelangelo expert...
via Brainstorm Health-care reform is set to become my King Charles’s Head. I am going to find it difficult to write anything without it coming up in the middle. Fifty-seven million people in the...
Where does the buck stop? The NYT TierneyLab looks at science and money, along with all of the attendant “conflicts of interest” between sound science and the money tied up in it. Read here...
Manuela Constantino of the quarterly Canadian Literature picked the perfect interview subjects for their latest issue: editors and contributors from The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature, including...
We think of René Descartes as a French philosopher given that he was born in La Haye, France. Descartes, however, felt most at home among the Dutch. In 1618 he joined the army of the Dutch commander,...
Historian Brian Balogh was recently interviewed on With Good Reason, discussing the (surprisingly) active 19th century government that laid the foundation for America’s rise. Listen >> Read More ?