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1: Overview In this blog series, we will provide an overview of the representative features of Chinese politeness in daily interaction. Instead of discussing conventional topics, such as the use of...
Most Americans (and economists) are clueless regarding the racial wealth gap A recent study asked over a thousand people their perceptions of the wealth gap between White and Black Americans. Respondents...
In the summer of 2020, corporate America found its voice on race. Across every sector, from finance to retail to tech, corporations and their executives issued public statements proclaiming solidarity...
Let me describe the activities of an organization leading advocacy for liberal democracy in Zambia in recent years. When politicians spoke of changing the country’s constitution to end presidential...
In the 1990s I had a “driveway moment.” Public radio had a story about conflict within the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) over the geographic allocation of livers for transplantation....
Animals are all around us. They give us food, clothing, and companionship. We use them for entertainment and research. And they are countless in the wild. Human activities affect them, often without us...
How has Europe’s century-spanning history of colonialism shaped the development of the European Union (EU) legal order? The book Colonialism and the EU Legal Order edited by Hanna Eklund explore this...
The interests of historians have been formed by many factors. Politics, identity and personal grievances, for example, have all played a part. For me and many others, it was marriage that shaped my trajectory...
How did Polynesians and other Pacific Islanders interact verbally with Europeans during early colonial times? In turn, how did Cook and those who followed in his footsteps talk with Islanders on their...
Our current understanding of philosophy is a relatively recent invention. It took shape in late eighteenth-century Germany, when a small group of scholars redefined what philosophy was and how its history...
Music forms the soundtrack that accompanies and brightens our daily lives. It is one of the very few endeavours that unite us all. Its intrinsic value is undeniable. However, this often does not translate...
How do scientists interpret the results of an experiment? How do they draw conclusions from experiments? In January of 1939, the young Alan Hodgkin decided to break in some new lab equipment and he had...
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