Human Agency and the Social Nodes Michele Battle-Fisher Politics & Economics, Society & Culture According to Anthony Giddens (1979), human agency must include an acting subject that deals with action linearly. In this duality of structure, on the most basic level people make up society but are inherently...
Chronic Illness, Caregiving and the 800-pound Gorilla Network Michele Battle-Fisher Science & Medicine, Society & Culture Private medical issues rarely remain concealed from the public. A “private” medical issue becomes everyone else’s business for a good reason. Health must be modeled as realistically as possible, as a...
The Pervasive and Elusive, Momentous and Mysterious Law (Part 2 of 3) Bruce K. Adler Politics & Economics, Society & Culture An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. -- Edmund Burke (in a speech in May 1789 favoring an impeachment) He who knows only his own side of the...
In Remotest Mali, A Hero on International Women’s Day Juliet Sorensen Politics & Economics, Society & Culture Laya Ongoiba speaks truth to power. An advocate against female genital mutilation and child marriage in the town of Douentza, in central Mali, where 89 percent of women and girls have undergone FGM, Laya...
The Pervasive and Elusive, Momentous and Mysterious Law (Part 1 of 3) Bruce K. Adler Politics & Economics, Society & Culture At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor and oppressed...
Why Do American Cops Kill So Many Compared to European Cops? Paul Hirschfield Politics & Economics, Society & Culture Paul Hirschfield, Rutgers University Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first degree murder November 24 in the death of Laquan McDonald. A video released by police shows Van Dyke...
Othering Violence, Othering People Tyler M. Curley Government, Philosophy, Politics, Society & Culture It seems like almost every day there is an outbreak of violence somewhere in the world—whether it’s a mass shooting in the U.S., a simmering intifada boiling into war between Israelis and Palestinians,...
