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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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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,...
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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 MoreThe United Nations Climate Conference (COP 31) will convene in Antalya, Turkey. Muslim-majority countries have hosted two recent COPs in Sharm el-Sheikh and Dubai and are now set to host in Antalya. That...
Human beings think, speak, and write in metaphors. Those metaphors change as cultures do; people use them to respond to and reshape the world. Indeed, neuroscientists and literary scholars alike have...
Each time our small ship met a big wave, a few plates and glasses crashed to the deck. We were in a storm on the North Atlantic Ocean, on a voyage from the United States to Europe. You need not fear...
For decades, behavioural economics has transformed how we think about human decision-making. It showed that people are not the cold, hyper-rational optimisers imagined by classical economics. We rely...
State Matters began with a life rupture, not a theoretical puzzle. Before it became an intellectual project, it was something I lived through—watching political events tear through ordinary life. For...
Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi once wondered if he might be a dream that a butterfly was having. A couple of millennia later, a biologist asks a similar question in Greg Bear’s novel Vitals (2002). “Larger...
We live in an age of grand challenges, from climate change and the digitalisation of markets to rising inequality. Yet legal systems struggle to respond effectively, constrained by entrenched disciplinary...
As we live through the transformation of the post-Cold War international order, politicians, diplomats, and scholars have fastened upon the pre-First World War era as a guide to what might emerge in its...
At the height of its expansion, the Tang (618-907) stretched from Tajikistan to Manchuria. The breakup of this empire was a cataclysmic event with wide repercussions in China and beyond. To chart the...
When historians write about Jews in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s final years, the story is often framed almost entirely through repression. The destruction of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee,...
If change is necessary and beneficial, why is it sometimes so slow, and fiercely resisted? When and how do people, groups, and movements bring about system change? These are the ideas we explore...
Political arguments often appeal to fundamental moral intuitions about right and wrong. Politicians highlight the moral basis of their views and positions. For example, in the context of the recent U.S....
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