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Civil Rights and Religious Differences
Historian David Hollinger (UC Berkeley) describes how the American Civil Rights movement provides a clear example of different reactions by Ecumenical and Evangelical Protestants.
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Behaviour and Values
University of Michigan business school professor Andrew Hoffman describes the approaches we need to take - and not take - in order to generally increase awareness of the environment throughout society.
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A Mainstream Tale
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego) describes her experience as a hard of hearing child being placed in a local public school and the effect that it had on her.
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Community Concern
Primatologist and bestselling author Frans de Waal (Emory) distinguishes between the community concern of humans and of animals.
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Chomsky From a Non-Chomskyan
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, a "non-Chomskyan", pays allegiance to Noam Chomsky’s profound contributions to linguistics.
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Building Better Models
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) describes how we can use philosophical understanding to help build better, more rigorous models in social science.
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Beyond Theories of Practice
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.
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Aristotelian Capacities and Flourishing
Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) describes the standard Aristotelian argument of capacities and flourishing.
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Appreciating Translators
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, urges us to recognize the enormous societal value that translators provide in our daily lives.
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Against Smoothness
Intellectual historian Stefan Collini, University of Cambridge, describes how, to a certain extent, one can say that the famous literary critic F.R. Leavis wrote in a deliberately difficult way, in an effort to make his readers think and...
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A Teacher's Impact
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) details how his life was profoundly affected by Mr. Jensen, his high school English teacher.
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A Sense of the Numinous
Rabbi Emeritus David J. Goldberg relates the irrational side of the human condition, how he has more in common with moderates of other religions than he does with extremists of his own, and the constant tensions between particularism and...
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Human Rights Awareness
Legal scholar Emilie Hafner-Burton (UCSD) discusses the lack of general awareness surrounding much of the international human rights system.
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Flawed Models
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) relates his concern that many agent-based models are based on a flawed assumption of what the social world actually consists of.
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Ecumenical Protestantism
Historian David Hollinger (UC Berkeley) describes the Ecumenical Protestant movement and its huge impact on American cultural and political life.
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Bill Stokoe's Legacy
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes her early experience with transformative sign language linguist Bill Stokoe.
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Beyond Irrationality
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) argues that the social world cannot be explained through individuals alone.
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Always Lying
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses how our consistent complaint that politicians lie more today than in the past doesn't bear up to historical scrutiny.
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Against Weber
Historian Nile Green (UCLA) cites the model of religious economy as a counter-argument to classical Weberian secularization theory.
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Against Dawkins
Renowned polymath and physicist Freeman Dyson (Institute for Advanced Study) describes how the so-called "militant atheist" movement leads to intolerance and extremism.Reno
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A Stark Failure
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) relates how he became interested in the study of the social world.
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A Slippery Slope
Ben Nelson (Minerva) describes how as the modern university increasingly moves from the broader goal of intellectual development to mere “knowledge dissemination”, it descends a slippery slope to irrelevance.
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Contemporary Chinese Literature
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) gives us some recommendations for stimulating contemporary Chinese literature.
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Chinese Cultural Diversity
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) describes how historical circumstances have affected different Chinese-speaking regions.