Should Trees Have Standing?
Christopher D. Stone argues that in order to make a case for the environment, nature must be bestowed legal rights.
Christopher D. Stone argues that in order to make a case for the environment, nature must be bestowed legal rights.
Anatoly Liberman answers questions.
An excerpt from 1888’s The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, recently reprinted in the Oxford World’s Classics series.
An excerpt from The Lives of Ants.
Elvin Lim looks at the Republican party.
Author Joy Hakim looks at how we educate our children.
An excerpt from Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World.
A birthday salute to Tennessee Williams.
What Rebecca has been reading.
The Fundamentalist Mindset sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. The collection is edited by Charles B. Strozier, a Professor of History at John Jay College, CUNY, and a practicing psychoanalyst, David M. Terman, Director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, James W. Jones, a Professor of Religion and adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University and Katharine A. Boyd a doctoral student at John Jay College, CUNY.
The podictionary word of the week is “innuendo”.
Churchill’s Children author John Welshman reflects on his first literary festival
Who decides how long a metre is?
Anatoly Liberman looks at the word “humbug”.
Professor David Blockely on the lessons he believes the wider world can learn from bridge-building.
Elvin Lim looks at health-care reform.