by Beverly | Feb 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
President Obama Wants America to Be Like Germany—What Does That Really Mean?Want a smarter workforce? A stronger manufacturing sector? Germany seems to offer a blueprint for Obama’s middle-out economic agenda — if we take away the right lessonsThis was...
by Beverly | Feb 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Seven secrets of stylish academic writing?Seven secrets of stylish academic writingImagine that the editor of a widely-read magazine or, say, The Conversation has heard about your academic research and invited you to contribute an article. But you only know how to...
by Beverly | Feb 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Seven secrets of stylish academic writingSeven secrets of stylish academic writingImagine that the editor of a widely-read magazine or, say, The Conversation has heard about your academic research and invited you to contribute an article. But you only know how to...
by Beverly | Feb 13, 2013 | Racism in Europe
An interesting post reflecting on the role of racism in Enlightenment thought was posted in the New York Times this week. While I laud the attention to racist aspects of Enlightenment thinking, I am less certain about this claim: “but given that we now know that...
by Beverly | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Enlightenment’s ‘Race’ Problem, and OursWhen we learned that witches did not exist, we threw out the category. So why do we cling to the discredited notion of race?This was posted on Google+