The Bi-Partisan Rhetoric of Health Care Apocalypse is Wrong
Edward Zelinsky looks at the bi-partisan rhetoric on health care and what the changes really mean.
Edward Zelinsky looks at the bi-partisan rhetoric on health care and what the changes really mean.
Dennis Baron looks at how we read.
What Rebecca has been reading.
An excerpt from The Seven Pillars of Creation.
The podictionary word of the week is “fool”.
A look at Easter-related terms in the Oxford Dictionary of the Bible.
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.