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Racial inequality is alive and well in America, and conservatives are strategically dismantling one of the greatest tools in the arsenal against persistent injustices: the vote. The expansion and contraction of the right to vote has been an ongoing theme in U.S. history. When the right to vote has been expanded, it has often translated […]
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In the hours and days following the June 3 rampage on London Bridge and Borough Market – a number of political leaders issued calls for travel bans and internment camps for Muslims. Predictable, maybe, but nonetheless disturbing. Any number of commentators, not to mention federal judges, have suggested the serious shortcomings of such “solutions.” My […]
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Originally posted on Tact Technology In commercials for AXE deodorant, popular with adolescent boys, its qualities are always advertised in roughly the same way: by showing that a man – however unattractive – becomes irresistible to women when he smells of AXE. This modern variation on the love potion illustrates the kind of fantasy of control […]
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Bert Spector, author of Discourse on Leadership, examines macho culture and leadership in his recent blog post, originally posted on The Conversation.
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Originally posted on Sandyhershcovis.org Lately I’ve become interested in workplace ostracism as a form of workplace aggression. Most research lumps ostracism with other forms of mistreatment (incivility, bullying, etc.), but a recent chapter by Sandra Robinson and Kira Schabram (in press), has convinced me that it is in fact quite different, and possibly much more painful […]
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A good deal of attention has focused on the psychological makeup of the man who sought and won the Presidency in 2016, including the provocative “Is Donald Trump a Psychopath” by fellow Cambridge author, Steven M. Stahl. (Stahl’s answer: probably not.) While I don’t expect this line of inquiry to let up anytime soon, I […]
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“The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line,” W.E.B. DuBois famously observed of the United States. Despite the occasional proclamations of a post-racial society in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s 2008 election, race has continued to dominate American life well into the next century, a fact startlingly brought home in […]
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