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Varieties of Atheism in Science

Stereotypes of atheist scientists need to be dispelled before trust in science erodes

By David R. Johnson and Elaine Howard Ecklund

Coping with a global pandemic has laid bare the need for public trust in science. And there is good news and bad news when it comes to how likely the public is to trust science. Our work over the past ten years reveals that the public trusts science and that religious people seem to trust science as much as non-religious people. Yet, public trust in scientists as a people group is eroding in dangerous ways. And for certain groups who are particularly unlikely to trust scientists, the belief that all scientists are loud, anti-religious atheists is a part of their distrust.

Elderspeak: the language of ageism in healthcare

By Clarissa Shaw and Jean K. Gordon

Elderspeak or baby talk to older adults is frequent in the healthcare context. Although elderspeak is typically well-intentioned it arises from a place of implicit ageism and can have negative consequences for older adults, particularly those with dementia.

An empire of many colours? Race and imperialism in Ancient Rome

By Greg Woolf

Romans sometimes worried that you couldn’t tell enslaved and free people apart. By the second century CE, many senators were descended from Gauls and Iberians, Carthaginians, Greeks, and Syrians—the very peoples Romans had conquered as they extended their empire. So, was the Roman empire unusually inclusive? Or even a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic civilization? None of that seems very likely.

Guided by the Mountains

Well-known secret graveyards: (re)discovering the horrors of assimilation for Indigenous peoples

By Michael Lerma

The Kamloops Indian Residential School was part of a systematic Indigenous youth educational effort in Canada, with comparable projects in the United States, the purpose and intent of which is hotly debated today.

Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged: Entitlement's Response to Social Progress

The Census and entitled resentment

By Kristin J. Anderson

From a psychological perspective, entitlement refers to one’s sense of deservingness. Entitled people believe they deserve more than others. For entitled white people, the latest Census data triggers panic at being replaced by those who have historically been on the margins.

Idioms and slang: two examples

By Anatoly Liberman

In this blog post, the Oxford Etymologist discusses two slang idioms: “worth a Jew’s eye” and “to save one’s bacon”.

Economic Policy

The importance of international coordination of environmental policies

By Itzhak Ben-David, Yeejin Jang, Stefanie Kleimeier, and Michael Viehs

The US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called on 6 July 2021 for tighter international coordination on carbon environmental policies. So why can’t individual countries implement their own environmental policies in an effective fashion so that global warming will be slowed down?

Urban Transformation in Ancient Molise

Molise: the undiscovered Italian region

By Elizabeth C. Robinson

When planning a trip to Italy, the major cities of Rome, Florence, Milan and Venice are usually on the must-see list. Yet many people also yearn to find the “undiscovered hidden gem” waiting to be explored. For the latter group, Molise is waiting. This region is so underrated that Italians have a running joke: “Il Molise non esiste” (“Molise doesn’t exist”).

Dante's New Life of the Book

The real scandal of Dante’s Beatrice

By Martin Eisner

2021 saw the 700th anniversary of the death of poet Dante Alighieri. To mark this, we asked some of our authors to write for the OUPblog on Dante. In this blog, Martin Eisner author of “Dante’s New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature”, explores Dante’s divinization of a mortal woman, with specific reference to Beatrice from Dante’s the New Life (Vita nuova).

The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland

The continuing appeal of religious politics in Northern Ireland

By Crawford Gribben

One of the most curious features of sudden-onset secularisation on the island of Ireland has been the revitalisation of religious politics. This is most obvious in Northern Ireland, where within the last three months, the chaotic introduction of the Brexit protocol, loyalist riots, and a controversy about banning so-called “gay conversion therapy” have been followed by dramatic declines in electoral support for and leadership changes within the largest unionist party that can only be described as chaotic.

Two evil homonyms: “mother” and “haggard”

By Anatoly Liberman

In this blog post, the Oxford Etymologist dives into the lexicographical history of two puzzling English homonyms: “mother” and “haggard.”

Title cover of "Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels: Insulting the President from Washington to Trump" by Edwin L. Battistella, published by Oxford University Press

Super takes off

By Edwin L. Battistella

Superman has been around for more than eighty years. The word “super” been a part of English much longer. It was borrowed into English from Latin, and in Old English we already find the word “superhumerale” to refer to a religious garment worn over the shoulders.

The henchman’s dilemma

By Anatoly Liberman

I am aware of only two English words whose origin has provoked enough passion and bad blood to inspire a thriller. The first such word is “cockney” and the second is “henchman”.

How Nations Remember

What does the history of Victory Day tell us about Russia’s national identity?

By James V. Wertsch

Every year on 9 May, Russia observes Victory Day as its most important national holiday. It celebrates the end of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) by staging events that dwarf those of any other country. But Victory Day is not just about the past. It is also about national identity in the present, and as this identity project has changed, so has the memory of the war.

Convergence Mental Health A Transdisciplinary Approach to Innovation

Closing the Brain Health Gap: addressing women’s inequalities

By Erin Smith, Naoko Kawaguchi, Sandra Bond Chapman, Antonella Santuccione Chadha, Meryl Comer, Jessica Wolfe, William Hynes, Paul W. Zarutskie, and Harris A. Eyre

There is a clear sex and gender gap in outcomes for brain health disorders across the lifespan, with strikingly negative outcomes for women. The “Brain Health Gap” highlights and frames inequalities in all areas across the translational spectrum from bench-to-bedside and from boardroom-to-policy and economics.

Native conquistadors: the role of Tlaxcala in the fall of the Aztec empire

By David M. Carballo

The Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica, leading to the collapse of the Aztec empire, would have been impossible were it not for the assistance provided by various groups of Native allies who sensed the opportunity to upend the existing geopolitical order to something they thought would be to their advantage. No group was more critical to these alliances than the Tlaxcaltecs.