2022

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27
Dec
2022

A moral basis for healthcare funding

Unfortunately economics has a bad reputation. Its policy prescriptions are often seen as unfair, and its methods based on a world of fanciful assumptions. In its application in the public sector, it is...
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27
Dec
2022

Poor White Southerners in the American Imaginary

Travel about twenty-five miles south from my house and eighty-seven years back in time and you’d have a shot at encountering one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists taking the picture...
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23
Dec
2022

LIVES, LOVES AND LETTERS OF 1845

In my book The Old Enemies (CUP) I described 1845 as ‘a year of religious crises’. Later, when looking at broader trends that year, I was surprised by the sustained intensity of crises that also arose...
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23
Dec
2022

Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance...

Well over a decade ago, scholars acknowledged an “affective turn” or “turn to emotions” taking place across disciplines. Yet within the “turn to emotion,” certain types of emotion still turn...
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22
Dec
2022

Science, Religion, and Explanation

Human beings are explanation-seeking creatures. When something happens in our lives or in the world around us, we long for a satisfying understanding of it. That sense of satisfaction usually only emerges...
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15
Dec
2022

Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-roll?

The flower children of the 60s are now in their 60s and beyond, but their hippiedom is not just a vague memory of their rebellious youth. My recent study of aging hippies reveals that “once a hippie,...
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14
Dec
2022

A two-way approach to Early Christianity

By writing counter-clockwise, beginning from the Medieval Ages moving backwards towards the beginnings of Christianity. Based on the restrospective account that has been introduced by How to write Early...
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14
Dec
2022

Objects, Memory, and Place: The Background of...

Historians are people of the paper, always hoping for the revelation of some remarkable event sitting unremarked upon in an archival page. We are equally sure that such revelations are rare, and usually...
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