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Editorial Bias
UCLA Chinese cultural studies expert Michael Berry describes how the editor plays a key, and often overlooked role, in the process of bringing a translated work of literature to the public.
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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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Capacity and Informed Consent
Elyn Saks, Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at USC, describes her own instrument for informed consent and how it differs from the MacArthur instrument.
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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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Asian Values?
Author and independent scholar author Pankaj Mishra gives his views on whether the East and the West have a fundamentally different set of values.
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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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Adopting an Anti-Rhetoric
Historian Nile Green (UCLA) describes how using a sometimes provocative new language to describe what we think we already know forces us to broaden our understanding.
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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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A Sense of Crisis
Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra describes how his outlook to life has been irrevocably affected by a deep sense of crisis that is common to many people who grow up in Asia.
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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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Innate Fairness
Primatologist Frans de Waal (Emory) discusses how a wealth of primate studies suggest that our sense of fairness does not derive from logical reflection or reason, but is a product of evolution.
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Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Legal scholar Nita Farahany (Duke) describes an unexpected area where neuroscience is having an impact in legal proceedings.
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Inappropriate Labels
Andrew Hoffman, Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, discusses the public perception of climate change.
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Inadvertent Impact
Ben Nelson (Minerva) describes how one of his greatest accomplishments as CEO of the tech company Snapfish turned out to be completely accidental.
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In the Shadow of The West
Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra describes his personal experiences of growing up in Asia while being disproportionately affected by Western cultural, philosophical and economic considerations.
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In Search of Religious Principles
Historian and social anthropologist Nile Green, UCLA, describes why he uses the model of “religious economy” as an “anti-rhetoric” to deliberately get people to think about religion and core religious principles in a new and different way.
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Implementing Norms
Legal scholar Emilie Hafner-Burton (UCSD) highlights the difference between creating and applying human rights norms.
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Humour in Sign Languages
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes unique aspects of humor that American Sign Language enables.
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Human Rights Biases
Legal scholar Emilie Hafner-Burton (UCSD) discusses the work done by sociologist James Ron on human rights biases within human rights NGOs.
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Hitting the Road
Historian Nile Green (UCLA) describes how important it is for his research to travel and regularly interact with people on the ground.