What Goes Around Comes Around: Our Faith in Karma
July 12, 2016
Sam van Schaik— …The logic of the text is causation: If you do x, then y will happen. This is, of course, karma. Every event comes about because of previous events…. READ MORE
Category: Social Science
The Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Modern Middle East
June 16, 2016
Neil Faulkner— A hundred years on from Sykes-Picot, the Middle East is in turmoil. These two things are intimately related. Mark Sykes was a British diplomat, François Georges-Picot his French… READ MORE
Why Memes Matter for Feminism
May 25, 2016
Eileen Hunt Botting— Memes are a staple of contemporary popular culture, but most people would be hard pressed to define what exactly they are. Simply put, memes are widely recognizable… READ MORE
For Kids with Pain, Attending School Can Help More Than it Hurts
May 16, 2016
Rachael Coakley— Jessica started her freshman year of high school in great spirts. Then, in early October, she began to get daily headaches after school. Her headaches typically began around… READ MORE
Abolitionists are American Democracy’s Unsung Heroes
May 13, 2016
Manisha Sinha— Most Americans greeted Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew’s decision to put Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist heroine of the Underground Railroad, on the front of the twenty-dollar bill and relegate… READ MORE
Moving Beyond Arab Spring
May 10, 2016
Ibrahim Fraihat— Five years have passed since several Arab countries revolted against their repressive regimes, and peace and stability are nowhere in sight. The unraveling of their political systems pushed… READ MORE
The Past, Present, and Future of America and the Islamic World
March 24, 2016
Tarek Osman— In 1801, the rulers of Tripoli, in today’s Libya, declared war on the US, after the republic had attacked North African corsairs who had repeatedly pirated American ships… READ MORE
A Beginner’s Guide to Science Blogs
March 17, 2016
Christie Wilcox— I love writing a science blog. I write a lot of things—I’ve written peer-reviewed journal articles and a dissertation; I’ve written for major newspapers, science magazines, and chic,… READ MORE
Five Questions Every Patient Should Ask When Interviewing A Physician
March 14, 2016
Abraham Nussbaum— Physicians are used to asking questions—Where does it hurt? How long has it been bothering you? Did you mean to stick that up there?—but when a patient is… READ MORE
Questioning the Identity of Modern Chinese Philosophy
March 3, 2016
John Makeham— Forty years ago, intellectual historian Joseph Levenson famously commented: “What the West has probably done to China is to change the latter’s language—what China has done to the… READ MORE
A Conversation with Trudier Harris on Bigger: A Literary Life