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CambridgeBlog

CambridgeBlog has written 673 posts for This Side of the Pond

Bjørn on The Takeaway

Listen to Bjørn Lomborg talk climate change on The Takeaway.

New Criterion on Podhoretz

Trailblazer? Defender of Israel and America? Or Traitor?  See what The New Criterion has to say in their review Jeffers’ book on Norman Podhoretz.

Cultural Evolution blog

Kate Distin proposes a theory of Cultural Evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the origin and development of human culture.  Check out her blog on Psychology Today.

Is there any end to party polarization?

With November midterms coming up, it appears the political parties are more polarized than ever!  Sean M. Theriault’s Party Polarization in Congress details our nation’s history of bipartisanship in this article by Gary Andres of The Weekly Standard.

Nazi sympathy in 1930s American Universities

It was just a few decades ago that elite education institutions in this country were placing quotas against Jewish students, encouraging students to visit Nazi Germany on exchange programs, refusing to hire Jewish refugee scholars fleeing Hitler, and punishing both faculty and students who protested the school’s friendly relations with the Nazi regime.