American Society

Saving Social Science

Paul Stoller | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: American Society, Philosophy, Social Life, College, College Funding, Social Science, Anthropology, The Humanities, Science, STEM Education, Education News
Paul Stoller

STEM is important in the future of higher education, but so are the social sciences and humanities which teach students how to think critically and to how assess the social and cultural ramifications of rapid technological change.

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Pakistan, Palestine, and the USA

Ethan Casey | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Palestine, Jews, Islam, Pakistani Intelligence, USA, Terrorism, Pakistan, United Nations, Muslim World, American Muslims, American Society, American Politics, Muslims, Israel, Muslim, American Jews, Politics News
Ethan Casey

I woke up this morning to the news that Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, had directly accused Pakistan's Inter-Se...

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Pakistan and the American Learning Curve Part 2

Ethan Casey | Posted 08.23.2011

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Ethan Casey

To write on controversial subjects in a way that I consider helpful takes a capacity for keeping one's cool and a willingness to refrain from scoring cheap points. That's no more true of Pakistan than of any other subject.

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Are We a Society?

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House Budget, Budget 2012, Budget Vote, Budget, American Society, Government Shutdown, Congress Budget, House Budget, Society, Politics News
Gary Hart

The current U.S. budget confrontation raises the issue of whether we are a society, a community, or a collection of individuals inhabiting the same geographical space.

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Spiritual Perspectives On Greed

Judith Johnson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Taoism, Competition, American Society, Greed, Cooperation, Judaism, American Greed, Spiritual Interpretation of Greed, Limited Resources, Christianity, Buddhism, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
Judith Johnson

We are social beings confronted with the fact that while many of us do as we please without concern for others, we cannot do so without affecting them.

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Is America Any Different from Pakistan?

Ethan Casey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Society, American Politics, Muslims, Assassinations, Jared Loughner, Salman Taseer, Pakistan, Sarah Palin, World News
Ethan Casey

What is it that allows us to consider Jared Loughner a mentally troubled young man acting alone and Faisal Shahzad, the mentally troubled young U.S. citizen who tried to blow up Times Square last May, a terrorist "Made in Pakistan"?

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Study: Americans Crave Forgiveness But Are Not Very Forgiving

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Americans and Forgiveness, Forgiveness Study, Study on Forgiveness, Forgiveness in America, American Values, American Society, American Forgiveness Study, American Culture, Religion in America, Forgiveness, Fetzer Institute, Strategyone Study, Religion News

By Whitney Jones Religion News Service (RNS) Most Americans have a desire for more forgiveness in their lives, but they are more critical when cho...

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Lindsay Lohan: Easy to Be Hard

Dr. Cheryl Pappas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, American Society, Psychology, Substance Abuse, Lindsay Lohan, Compassion, Joan Rivers, Nancy Grace, Entertainment News
Dr. Cheryl Pappas

Joan Rivers is right about Lindsay Lohan. Sadly, her comment that Ms. Lohan will not survive another ten years of her current lifestyle appears reasonable and prescient.

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The Perils of a Plastic Society

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Plastic, Time Magazine, Barack Obama, Inconvenient Truth, Sarah Palin, President Obama, American Society, American Culture, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Carol Smaldino

Our dependency on plastic is not purely physical; it is the word used for surgery of many of those most of us envy. And sadly it is a word that describes many of us, certainly in how we deal on the outside.

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My Relationship with Corporate America

Donna Flagg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Society, Career, Conflict, Personal Growth, Career Advice, Careers, Business, Confrontation, Conflict Resolution, Anxiety, Communication, Self-Help, Business News
Donna Flagg

In talking with this colleague, I realized that "difficult" was a relative term and uniquely defined by every person based on his or her own individual perception of negative.

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Maybe We Are Maturing

R.T. Eby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racial Relations, US Army, Barack Obama, American Society, Racial Prejudice, Politics News
R.T. Eby

In my early basic and advanced individual training I remember some of the young men from the south having a hard time living with, sleeping next to, and interacting with other young men who were not white. You see, unlike those southern men, the Army had been integrated for quite some time.

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