Historian Nile Green (UCLA) describes how his invocation of the model of religious economy for Islam gives benefits to Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra describes how many people educated in the Western tradition, himself included, have only recently come to appreciate the intellectual significance of many aspects of Buddhist thought.

Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) reflects on how the field of social sciences could change for the better.

Robert L. Dilenschneider formed The Dilenschneider Group in October, 1991. Headquartered in New York and Chicago, the Firm provides strategic advice and counsel to Fortune 500 companies and leading families and...

Tufts University philosopher Brian Epstein describes how carefully developing a model of bureaucratic corruption can lead to identifying key factors that traditional social science models will necessarily overlook.

This video has 10 fitness exercises to use as part of your health and physical education programs at school. Using basic equipment (hoop, cones, ladder, jump rope, mat), your students will be developing their over fitness, static &...

This video discusses the influences and philosophies of the American Romantic movement, using examples from poetry of the time.

Specialization evaluates how the availability of productive resources, including human, capital, and natural resources, promotes specialization that leads to trade.

Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) discusses how many sociologists and anthropologists need to move more beyond anthropocentrism to make better models of the social world.

Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) argues that the social world cannot be explained through individuals alone.

Author and independent scholar author Pankaj Mishra gives his views on whether the East and the West have a fundamentally different set of values.

Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes how, despite being born not far from where the Buddha lived and preached, he had to make a special effort to learn about Buddhism.

Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) highlights the importance of dignity for a well-functioning democracy.

Learn the 3 Branches of Government in the U.S. by KLT App for iPhone & iPad

Sleep deprivation is often linked with body aches, among other effects, such as the numbing of our senses, reduction of our reaction time, etc. This is because sleep allows the body to repair damaged cells and get rid of harmful...

AI can be used to re-identify individuals based on videos, images, and now anonymized data. What can you do to protect yourself, and what is the future of this technology?

Significant Individuals of the New England Colonies identifies significant individuals responsible for the development of the New England colonies.

“Types of Characterization” will help the student to review the different types of characterization, particularly direct and indirect characterization

In today's What the Theory?, I take a look social class looking at both Karl Marx's theory of class as well as Pierre Bourdieu, cultural capital and more societally rooted approaches to class in the twenty-first...

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) describes how the official U.S. Government reaction to the horrific abuses at Abu Ghraib prison committed by American soldiers is an all-too-typical denial of the powerful situational effects on...

Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo describes how his infamous 1971 Stanford Prison Study changed from a volunteer experiment that the students couldn’t take seriously to an all too real situational dynamic in the exercise...

Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt describes how scientific biographies often give an unrealistic description of how science is really done.

Jullia Lim, a PhD student at Teachers College, Columbia University, is passionate about leveraging technology to enhance learning experiences. Through augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and artificial intelligence, Jullia...

This lesson teaches the student about how the rights of all Americans are protected by exploring the rule of law and identifying examples as related to individual rights and the common good.