How Is Our Pilot Feeling Today?: A Courageous Conversation That Could Make a Difference Thomas Hellwig, Caroline Rook and Manfred Kets de Vries Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture This piece is published in partnership with INSEAD’s Knowledge blog, a leading online magazine engaged with innovative ideas about the business world. Over the last few weeks, disturbing details about...
What Happens to Critical Thought in Today’s Market-driven Academia? Angela Roothaan Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture What happens to critical thought in today’s market-driven academia?
Have HIV? Your Health Insurance Company May Discriminate Against You Laura Christianson, Wudan Yan and Doug Jacobs Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in March 2010, more than 15 million Americans who didn’t have health insurance before the law have signed on. Expanded coverage, however, does not...
Four Months Spent Living with the Dukha Reindeer Herders Made Me a Better Anthropologist—and Person Nicolas Rasiulis Society & Culture What is it like for an anthropology student to live with Mongolian Dukha reindeer herders?
Sobaka In The City: Urban Victims of the Post-Socialist Age Kaitlin Solimine Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Society & Culture From stray animals littering the revolutionary squares of Moscow to illegal migrants roaming the back alleyways of Beijing, today’s post-socialist cities are home to massive discrepancies in wealth and...
How Do We Navigate Medical Images and ‘Self?’ Gabriel Peters-Lazaro Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture Within a culture dominated by visual media, the images we make and share of ourselves are inevitably influenced and complicated by the wider cultural vernacular.
Money in Politics Corrupts: Big Money Corrupts Absolutely Simon Radford Economics, Government, Politics & Economics, Society & Culture A working paper published on an academic website creates a stir
