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Covid 19 and Competent Government

The importance of competent government is perhaps the most important of the many painful lessons that are being learned during the pandemic. The significant variation in death rates across the globe illustrates...

Elizabeth Fisher, Sidney A. Shapiro | 7 Jan 2021

Are We Living in a Multiverse? Why We Might – and Why We Might Never Know

In 2017, the influential online platform Edge.org asked leading academics as its question of the year: “What scientific term or concept should be more widely known?” Martin Rees, former President...

Simon Friederich | 23 Dec 2020

Eco vs. Ego: Environmentalism, Identity, and Psychological Vocabulary

In the age of environmental justice, we tend to readily grasp how closely environmental challenges are intertwined with matters of identity along lines of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and other social...

Alexander Menrisky | 18 Dec 2020

Breaking Glad: Positive Thinking and the President in the Time of COVID-19

What do Oprah Winfrey, Anne of Green Gables, Norman Vincent Peale, and United States President Donald Trump have in common? These individuals, real and fictional, embrace a nineteenth-century new...

Anne Stiles | 17 Dec 2020

How Framing Effects Can Be Your Friend

It’s a robust finding that people react differently to meat depending on how it is labeled. In well-known experiments subjects rated ground beef that was 25% lean as both higher quality and significantly...

José Luis Bermúdez | 14 Dec 2020

Christianity Matters in American Law and Jurisprudence

Since the first English settlements in North America, Christianity and its sacred text have had a significant influence on American jurisprudence. This reflects Christianity’s imprint on Western legal...

Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall | 14 Dec 2020

Surgical Training Requires Relentless, Forward, Progress

“to study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all” Sir William Osler, 1849-1919 It...

Mazyar Kanani, Simon Lammy | 10 Dec 2020

Information Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond

The editors of Information Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond discuss their new book which provides a detailed overview of the state-of-art approaches that led to realization of 5G.

Ivana Maric, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), Osvaldo Simeone | 10 Dec 2020

The Nature of Polities in the Developing World

When faced with phenomena that we find difficult to understand, we often turn to the past. Our understanding of the latter enables us to frame and dissect the events unfolding before us. I am a political...

Robert H. Bates | 4 Dec 2020

Tragedy, Art of Dissent

Think of the lies. Climate change is a hoax. Colonization benefits the colonized. Rape is your fault. Grief is your fault. Mortality is your fault. Tragedy exposes these lies. I argue in my book...

Manya Lempert | 2 Dec 2020

A Crisis of Confidence or Rebirth of Conviction? Transhumanists and their critics in the Age of a Global Pandemic

As Covid 19 has swept the globe, leaving over a million causalities in its wake, it has generated a profound crisis of confidence. Citizens throughout the world question their governments’ abilities...

Jennifer Huberman | 1 Dec 2020

Humanitarianism or Immigration Control – or Both?

The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented battle between values and pragmatism, and between humanitarianism and immigration control in large parts of the world. Asylum as an institution has always...

Liv Feijen | 1 Dec 2020