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When someone says the name “Allen Ginsberg”, any number of things immediately come to mind. Ginsberg was a celebrated US poet, and his work “Howl” is world famous. But he...
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US History
Several boys are standing at attention in the middle of the street during a parade in Kansas City, Missouri, May 18, 1918. Courtesy of the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. On...
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History & Classics
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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Medicine
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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Language & Linguistics
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,...
Read MoreAlleluia Pie pater dominice in the Dominican exemplar manuscript Rome, Santa Sabina, XIV L 1, f. 353v A new chant had been composed for St Dominic’s feast day. The scribe was stumped. He had...
Extreme voices dominate the national public debate in America over the proper role of religion and politics. Christian nationalists call for Christianity to dominate politics and culture. At the other...
When someone says the name “Allen Ginsberg”, any number of things immediately come to mind. Ginsberg was a celebrated US poet, and his work “Howl” is world famous. But he was also a noted activist....
Our economy doesn’t work for us and it hasn’t for a long time. Not only is it prone to periodic crises and breakdowns, but it is failing us in terms of addressing longer-term issues such as climate,...
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. Few documents in world history have been as extensively studied and analyzed, and it is fair to ask if there is anything...
Why do governments get overthrown? Why are many political systems chronically unstable? The Coup Trap in Latin America answers these questions by explaining why political systems fall prey...
The conduct of empirical exercises and comparative case studies and the invoking of theoretical analyses are common to almost all economic debates as participants seek to support/undercut different positions....
In Post-Soviet Brides in China Dream, I look at marriages between Chinese men and post-Soviet Slavic women and how they have come to be seen in China as an ideal type of transnational love and a pathway...
Corruption is everywhere. From senior politicians and bureaucrats to street-level bureaucrats, and from the richest countries to the poorest, corruption remains widespread, and efforts to fight it keep...
There is something deeply uncomfortable about admitting that you are not fully fluent in your own mother tongue. As a Mongolian born and raised in Mongolia, I grew up believing Mongolian was naturally...
Like many books, this one has a biography worth telling. The first edition of Understanding Language through Humor (ULTH) emerged out of a conversation with Cambridge University Press (CUP) Linguistics...
Several boys are standing at attention in the middle of the street during a parade in Kansas City, Missouri, May 18, 1918. Courtesy of the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. On May 18,...
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