Democracy is a funny word. In the strictest sense, it means “government by the people,” with decisions made […]
Category Archive: theory
I didn’t watch the debate about evolution and creationism between science educator Bill Nye and creationist Ken Ham […]
Many people have a love/hate relationship with their undergraduate or graduate introductory historiography class. I have taken three […]
I have never gone to see the Bodies exhibit. Although the spectacle is tempting—to see the human form […]
Despite the recent myopic attention paid by the media and the Obama administration to Syria, the Iranian nuclear […]
We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that […]
Political scientist James Q. Wilson died last week at the age of 80. The Ronald Reagan Professor of […]
What does it mean to “be” white, or black, or gay, or working-class? How might a Jewish Ethiopian-American […]