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Identity bytes: discovering donor conception online

Does it matter that you know who your genetic parents are, who you are related to, and how the story of your life began? Does it matter for your emotional wellbeing, or your feelings of connectedness...

Emily Postan | 29 Aug 2022

Has the Communist Party of China (CPC) increased its control over private corporations?

Numerous recent media reports have claimed that President Xi Jinping has greatly expanded the CPC’s presence in private business firms,1 with some giving estimates that 68% of private Chinese firms...

Colin S. C. Hawes | 23 Aug 2022

A tale of two elections: how “money politics” is shaped by national context

May 2022 in the Philippines. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. was running for president of the Philippines, in tandem with Sara Duterte, daughter of the term-limited incumbent, Rodrigo Duterte. Both...

Edward Aspinall, Meredith L. Weiss, Allen Hicken, Paul D. Hutchcroft | 23 Aug 2022

Q&A with David M. Greer, author of Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine

What inspired you to write Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine? Great question. To be honest, I was surprised to find out that there wasn’t already a book on this subject, and that people...

David M. Greer | 22 Aug 2022

The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism

The relationship of mathematics to biology is fascinating. Understanding why anti-evolutionist arguments fail can help us think clearly about this relationship.

Jason Rosenhouse | 19 Aug 2022

What’s New in Early Modern Europe Third Edition

Writing a new edition is always challenging, as there is always exciting new scholarship to incorporate and completely new directions and sub-fields to include. And then deciding what to cut, so the book...

Merry Wiesner-Hanks | 19 Aug 2022

Just Talking

What is a conversation?  And why should conversations matter to poetry?    (1) ‘They found you out?’                                                            ...

Elizabeth K. Helsinger | 19 Aug 2022

Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China

If one visits Shanghai’s iconic waterfront known as the Bund (or Waitan in Chinese) today, one immediately notices the many historical buildings that line the western side of the Huangpu River. Remnants...

Ghassan Moazzin | 19 Aug 2022

A Revamped Archaeology of Blackness

The discipline of Classics stands at a curious crossroads. While some of its advocates resist conflating the ancient Greco-Roman world with the twenty-first century, others weaponize Greco-Roman antiquity...

Sarah F. Derbew | 12 Aug 2022

An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber: a new edition

Alexander Pope thought he was dullness incarnate; Henry Fielding accused him of murdering the English Language; Aaron Hill compared his acting to ‘the heavings of a disjointed caterpillar’. Even one...

David Roberts | 12 Aug 2022

Aquinas on Efficient Causation and Causal Powers

Our everyday experience of the world reveals that the things around us are constantly changing.  As I look out my window, I notice that the grass outside has grown taller, the green raspberries have...

Gloria Frost | 10 Aug 2022

Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference: Rethinking Qualitative Research

What is Bayesian reasoning and how can we apply it to case studies and qualitative research? The basic idea is simple—we are social science “detectives,” and our goal is to find any and all...

Tasha Fairfield, Andrew E. Charman | 9 Aug 2022