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Reviews

Humans Are Nature’s Eccentrics—Laughing and Crying Show Why

Carl Gelderloos

Remarkably, the acts of laughing and crying reveal there are no givens for individual behavior nor blueprints for human society.

Interviews

Public Thinker: Shobita Parthasarathy on Why We Need to Diversify Expertise

Daniel Sarewitz
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Machines Like Me, But They Love You

Erik Gray
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More Nurture, Less Nature?

Maurizio Meloni

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Manufacturing Goodness: What Administrators Really Do and Why

Jordan Harper
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If on a Winter’s Night a Reader…

Francesca Mancino
Essays

The Saddest Cattle in the World: Atahualpa Yupanqui, Empire, and the Sound of Stolen Land

Alejandro Zuleta
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My Job Is to Fulfill Your Infantile Desire

Susan Zieger

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