Traditionalism v. Individualism: The Struggle of the Conservative Youth.
Cahn and Carbone explore the challenges a conservative-minded youth face in an liberal-acting world.
Cahn and Carbone explore the challenges a conservative-minded youth face in an liberal-acting world.
Dennis Baron looks at Wikipedia.
An excerpt from Blindspots: The May Ways We Cannont See.
An excerpt in honor of Philip Roth’s birthday.
What Lana’s been reading.
Why is infinity important?
The podictionary word of the week is “mascot”.
Rom Harré on the use of living things in scientific experiments throughout history.
An excerpt from The Rising.
For the third part of his Unpleasant People series, Anatoly Liberman discusses the recent origins of the word swindler.
It is in the nature of things that sexual behaviour that does not offend agreed norms makes no special stir. Even so it may be revealing. People masturbate, woo, marry, copulate, and give birth. Of these events the law requires only that marriages and, in Shakespeare’s time, baptisms rather than births be recorded. Analysis of such records may in itself illuminate the sexual mores of the period and, indeed, of Shakespeare and his family.
Dennis Baron looks at the destabilizing technologies of communication.
Elvin Lim leads us through the current political landscape.
Author John A. Neuenschwander looks at false light lawsuits against the Weird Ohio book and blog.
Goodwin and Guze’s Psychiatric Diagnosis gives us a historical background to panic disorders and hysteria.
An excerpt from China Marine.