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One of my favorites children’s books was What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry. Repeatedly, I learned how the Busytown tailors, construction workers, and lumbermill employees...
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Religious Studies Reflections
Whether you’re a wine connoisseur or not, you’ve likely had a moment at a party or a dinner where someone poured you a glass and expected that you would know what to do next. Give...
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Psychology
When I was a little girl, bullied by my peers and misunderstood by my teachers, I couldn’t wait to be a grown-up. I dreamed of my future life as a professor, filling my brain with...
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On 15 October 2024 I attended the UK premiere of Joy at the Royal Festival Hall — part of the 68th annual British Film Institute gala sponsored by Cunard. Directed by Ben Taylor...
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Medicine
BASIC Essentials is a comprehensive review book for the Anesthesiology BASIC Exam. It is designed to provide a concise and focused review of high-yield and testable facts for the BASIC...
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Philosophy & Religion
Kant’s 1797 essay “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity” has done more than any of his other works to scare students off his moral theory. Interpreters have little...
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To become a better writer, stop imitating published writing—and follow the science If only writers knew the unnecessary effort their texts inflict on hapless readers, they would...
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History & Classics
Most historians of the formative generations of the United States have focused (and still do) on a story of nation building that is centered on the creation of domestic institutions,...
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History & Classics
As the United States recently completed a bitter and divisive national election, Americans find themselves in the middle of the third decade of the twenty-first century searching for...
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History & Classics
Hà Tiên, situated in the western Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral not far from Vietnam’s present border with Cambodia, thrived as an entrepôt over much of the eighteenth...
Read MoreWhen Lucy Walker and I began work on Elizabeth Maconchy in Context, we were motivated by a simple conviction: Maconchy’s music and career demand a fuller account than she has usually been granted. She...
In the past several years we have witnessed a rapid and unsettling shift from the “post-racial” aspirations of the Obama era and the global outcry of the Black Lives Matter movement after the murder...
I’ve written about Wollstonecraft a lot, in the last fifteen years: books, articles, edited volumes. I started writing about her the minute I found out about her. And I found out about her because a...
As a pre-teen, I was fascinated with how cosmological and biological evolution led to humanity. Every new book checked out from the library led me to rewrite increasingly long, detailed lists of every...
The question of why there is something rather than nothing is supposed to be one of those “big” timeless topics in philosophy. And yet surprisingly few full-length books are published on the topic....
For several decades ‘failed‘ or ‘fragile’ states and their ‘collapse’ have concerned – if not obsessed – governments, intergovernmental organizations, internationally active NGOs,...
Many people these days talk about vulnerability: children, the elderly, and those who are poor are all described as vulnerable. During the pandemic, protecting the vulnerable became the guiding...
American politics is characterized by extreme partisanship and government stalemate. The two dominant political parties marshal reliably partisan interest groups with the objective of controlling both...
A trip to the theatre, these days, often involves additional purchase. Theatre merchandise (‘merch’) is sold in a related shop or kiosk, so that attending a performance might involve also buying a...
When we hear that the United States is facing a health care provider shortage, the most common response is: We need more doctors. It sounds intuitive. When it seems like we don’t have...
On December 3, 2024, then–President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea stunned the world by declaring martial law out of the blue. In a televised address, he emphasized the inevitability of martial law by...
From The United Arab Republic, 1963 (Cairo: Information Department) When I started researching the Egyptian Ministry of Culture (formerly National Guidance), I wondered why the government would...
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