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The Deficit Myth
January 5, 2021 // 8 Comments
Ron Berger — One of the influential books I read while studying sociology in graduate school was Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Kuhn revised the conventional view that scientific progress evolves through the accumulation of accepted facts and theories. This he referred to as “normal science.” But Kuhn also thought that the discovery of puzzling anomalies that could not be explained by existing paradigms periodically led to qualitative breaks from [...]
Politics and Economics
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The Faithless? The Untold Story of the Electoral College
October 27, 2020 // 2 Comments
Dave Gillespie — Do you think of yourself as something of a political junkie? Are you interested in, or concerned about, problems like partisan polarization and [...] -
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Philosophy and Religion
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Finding Nebuchadnezzar in Poland
September 17, 2018 // 3 Comments
DeWitt Clinton — All of us are hungry as dogs, though it’s not even noon, but our guide in green shoes wants us to stop at this grocery store, pick up some cheeses [...] -
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The Physicist and the Preacher
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Travel
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Churches of Moscow, Russia and Vicinity
February 24, 2020 // 4 Comments
Charles Cottle — In May 2018 I took a tour to Russia, the Baltic countries, and Poland. We were in Russia for over a week, during which time we toured Moscow and St. [...] -
Finding Nebuchadnezzar in Poland
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Music and Art
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Forty-Eight Hours in Budapest: A Photographic Essay
August 23, 2018 // 3 Comments
Charles Cottle and James Cottle — In May 2017 my brother Jim and I traveled on a tour of central Europe. The major cities on the tour included Budapest, [...] -
Images of Oaxaca: A Photo Essay
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Ten Simple Tips for Better Photos
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Culture and Society
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A Life in the Neighborhood
December 9, 2019 // 3 Comments
Bob Bates — The brown wooden door opens and Mister Rogers enters, looking directly into the camera. Stepping over to the closet, he slips out of his jacket, hangs it up, and [...] -
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Science
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In the Midst of the Sixth Extinction
July 10, 2019 // 4 Comments
Bob Bates — In May 2019, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), an international panel of [...] -
The Physicist and the Preacher
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Film and Television
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Celebrating the Viking Past
February 23, 2019 // 6 Comments
Jeff Berger — Two popular television series have recently appeared to reignite the public’s interest in the history of the Vikings. One is the History Channel’s Vikings, [...]
Sports
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Curt Flood: The Pioneering “Well-Paid Slave”
October 13, 2020 // 4 Comments
Jeff Berger — In 2016, Colin Kapernick began a protest against social injustices experienced by African Americans when he “took a knee” during the playing of [...] -
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History
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Old Prohibition: Party and Leader in the Latter-day
August 17, 2020 // 2 Comments
Dave Gillespie — James is the name his parents gave him; James as in Bond, the hero in Ian Fleming novels and movie spy thrillers. But unlike Bond, that famous but fictional [...]
Books
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The California Housing Crisis
May 28, 2020 // 2 Comments
Jeff Berger — Conor Dougherty’s new book, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America, is an important contribution to understanding the housing crisis in the United States. [...] -
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Creative Nonfiction
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Preserving Memories
January 17, 2019 // 3 Comments
Jeffrey Spitzer-Resnick — A few weeks ago I spent the weekend visiting my family in the Detroit area where I grew up. As my parents’ memories fade, it was important for me [...] -
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Finding Nebuchadnezzar in Poland
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Special Features
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John Kozlowicz
August 6, 2019 // 0 Comments
Followers of this site might like to know that over the summer John Kozlowicz passed away. John was a dear friend and contributor to Wise Guys. He was a scholar of United [...]