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Today's Poland as a Bastion of Conservative Populism: Targeting Families in a Populist Power Grab

Jaroslaw S. Myjak - With right-wing populists gaining power and electoral campaigns everywhere becoming more virulent, many are calling for a return to individualism and rationality. But, at least in countries like today’s Poland, such pleas fail to take into account the power of... Keep Reading »
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Defeating Apathy and Alienation in Scotland: True Victors of the Scottish Referendum

Shaun Docherty - At 7am in the morning after the Referendum on Scottish Independence, a triumphant David Cameron stood on the steps of number 10 Downing Street and announced to the world that the Scottish people had, with 55% of the electorate voting No, comprehensively rejected the... Keep Reading »

Intelligent Design in the Complexity of the Human Body

Jacob H. Rhodes - In a previous article I wrote about fine-tuning in the Universe and the empirical evidence for a Grand Designer that can be found within our reality. This argument of course occurs within the context of ongoing fiery debate between theists and secular scholars, and... Keep Reading »
Photo: Ivan Kopylov

The Gender Binary: Working Towards Uniqueness in American Education

Kenneth J. Macri - In today’s society, the categorization of gender in our educational system is leading to a socialization of masculinity and femininity, which is reaffirmed by gender-biased curriculum, testing, and activities. By attempting to define gender, we, as a society,... Keep Reading »

The Consequences of Food Waste

Kyra K. Payne - The copious amounts of forgotten and disregarded food that are tossed mindlessly into our landfills are a global travesty of massive proportions. Americans alone waste enough food in a day to transform the Rose Bowl, a football stadium capable of seating 90,000 people... Keep Reading »
 
 

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Populism
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Today's Poland as a Bastion of Conservative Populism: Targeting Families in a Populist Power Grab
By Jaroslaw S. Myjak
With right-wing populists gaining power and electoral campaigns everywhere becoming more virulent, many are calling for a return to individualism and rationality. But, at least in countries like today’s Poland, such pleas fail to take into... Read Article »
Poland Polish Politics Populism Conservatism
Public Health
2020, Vol. 12 No. 10
The Keto Diet and Long-Term Weight Loss: Is it a Safe Option?
By Natalya F. Giroux
The ketogenic diet, or keto diet for short, is a fad diet that has gained significant attention in recent years as a popular weight loss approach. The diet is characterized by a depletion of carbohydrates which in turn place the body in a state... Read Article »
Weight Loss Keto Diet Heart Disease Fad Diets Public Health
Agriculture
2017, Vol. 9 No. 02
The Economic Argument for Expanding GMO Regulation in America
By Daniel M. Weinzapfel
The necessity to grow crops faster and more efficiently has long been a goal for the agriculture industry. Now, through the development of GMOs, this goal is being achieved. However, many critics doubt the reputation of GMOs, instead arguing that... Read Article »
Agriculture Food Production Genetically Modified Organisms GMOs International Trade
Postmodernism
2016, Vol. 8 No. 11
Consumption as Postmodern Ideology in China
By Christopher E. Barnett
Jean Baudrillard makes the argument that in a postmodern globalized world, in which competing utopian metanarratives from both sides of the political spectrum have been exposed as failures, society is no longer constructed or ordered through common... Read Article »
China Postmodernism Consumerism Consumption Baudrillard Postmodern Society Chinese Culture
British Politics
2016, Vol. 8 No. 02
Defeating Apathy and Alienation in Scotland: True Victors of the Scottish Referendum
By Shaun Docherty
At 7am in the morning after the Referendum on Scottish Independence, a triumphant David Cameron stood on the steps of number 10 Downing Street and announced to the world that the Scottish people had, with 55% of the electorate voting No, comprehensively... Read Article »
Scottish Referendum Neoliberalism Scotland United Kingdom British Politics Political Economy
Syria
2015, Vol. 7 No. 10
Neither Can Live While the Other Survives: How the Representation of the Syrian Conflict Neglects the Citizen
By Jessica C. Tselepy
Headlines are littered with the rhetoric of the powerful. The most present modern crises can ostensibly be reduced to deconstructed, decontextualized and digestible echoes of our world leaders. The Syrian case is not disqualified from this reductionist... Read Article »
Syria Syrian Conflict Power Media Civil War Middle East Syrian Civil War Revolution
Music And Politics
2015, Vol. 7 No. 10
Press Play for Politics: The Weapon of a Eurovision Song
By Tinatin Japaridze
On the first day of 2010, I got a phone call from the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB), the official organizers of Eurovision Song Contest’s Georgian chapter. The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is an annual event that attracts some 800 million... Read Article »
Eurovision Song Contest Musicology Music And Politics Protest Music Pop Culture Political Expression
Ethics
2015, Vol. 7 No. 09
Kant and Mill on Physician-Assisted Suicide
By Anna Kozlova
Dr. Timothy Quill made headlines in the fields of patient rights and euthanasia when he published “Death and Dignity” in the New England Journal of Medicine (1991). In the articlce, Quill described his long-term patient, Diane, who had... Read Article »
Kant John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism Euthanasia Suicide Physician-Assisted Suicide Ethics Ethical Dilemmas End Of Life Care
Socialism
2015, Vol. 7 No. 09
Pottermania: Capitalist Eye-Candy Viewed Through a Neo-Marxist Lens
By Tinatin Japaridze
“Beware: Capitalist-Consumerism poses a danger to our Socialist ideals,” the Soviet-propaganda papers such as Pravdaand Izvestyahad proclaimed since the harrowing days of the Cold War. But by the early 1990s, the evergreen motto of the... Read Article »
Pottermania Harry Potter Neo-Marxism Socialism Soviet Union Capitalism Consumerism Marxism Disney
2015, Vol. 8 No. 2
A New Cold War? Explaining Russia's New Confrontations with the West
By Michael McFaul
Published by Cornell International Affairs Review
What I want to do today is answer one really big question. If we have time maybe we’ll get to the second question, but I want to answer one big question, because that’s what we should do as academics. It comes from an experience I... Read Article »
Russia U.S.-Russia Relations Cold War Foreign Policy
Room For Debate
2015, Vol. 7 No. 03
Intelligent Design in the Complexity of the Human Body
By Jacob H. Rhodes
In a previous article I wrote about fine-tuning in the Universe and the empirical evidence for a Grand Designer that can be found within our reality. This argument of course occurs within the context of ongoing fiery debate between theists and secular... Read Article »
Intelligent Design God Theology Creationism Evolution Natural Selection Religion Science Philosophy
Gender
2014, Vol. 6 No. 11
The Gender Binary: Working Towards Uniqueness in American Education
By Kenneth J. Macri
In today’s society, the categorization of gender in our educational system is leading to a socialization of masculinity and femininity, which is reaffirmed by gender-biased curriculum, testing, and activities. By attempting to define gender... Read Article »
Gender Equality Gender Gap Gender Binary Gender American Schools Education Reform
Urban Design
2014, Vol. 6 No. 10
MIT's Stata Center: The Static Soul of a Dynamic Body
By Parham Karimi
Although President Thomas Jefferson’s neo-classical design for the University of Virginia (completed in 1826) is often credited as the hallmark of American campus design, much of what we admire architecturally on the campuses of American universities... Read Article »
Architecture Urban Design Urban Planning Environmental Design Frank Gehry
Education Policy
2014, Vol. 6 No. 10
Third Grade Reading and Retention Policies to Improve Education Outcomes
By Hannah R. Jenuwine
Third grade reading proficiency is believed to be an important benchmark in education. The transition from third grade to fourth grade marks the shift from “learning to read” to “reading to learn” other subject material.... Read Article »
Education Policy Reading Literacy Childhood Education Primary Education
Conservation
2014, Vol. 6 No. 09
Humanity and Its Place in Nature: Rethinking the Reality of 'Wilderness'
By Thomas R. Smith
The Western concept of wilderness encompasses pristine, untrammeled land viewed as “the last remaining place where civilization…has not fully infected the earth” (Cronon, 1995, p. 69). Indeed, many Americans possess this dualistic... Read Article »
Environmental Justice Wilderness Nature National Parks Conservation Preservation Native Americans
 
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