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Fearful Parenting Is Contagious

Anti-vaxxers need to relax.

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Alive Knowing Death

Dorothea Lasky’s Rome.

  • Thomas Cook
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Poet’s Sampler: Blair Johnson

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From the Editors: November/December 2014

  • Deborah Chasman
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Science

Why This Ebola Outbreak is Different

The real reasons this outbreak has turned into an epidemic are weak health systems and lack of workforce.

  • Michele Barry

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The Rise of Outside Spending

The "independent" expenditures in the midterm elections are record-breaking 

  • Andrew Mayersohn
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Microreview: Frances Justine Post, Beast

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Law Philosophy Politics

Zionism and the Right to Culture

Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?

  • Omri Boehm
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Gedankenexperiment

  • Sean Bishop
Science

When Epidemic Hysteria Made Sense

From a historical view, there was a time when alarm, even a run-to-the-hills psychology, made sense in reaction to a disease appearing on our shores.

  • Claude S. Fischer
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Any Further West

  • Kali Fajardo-Anstine
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My Body Is a Cage

Mixed Martial Arts as Greek Tragedy

  • Jenny Hendrix
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Epic Hour

  • Sherod Santos

The Natural

Richard Linklater's Boyhood

  • Alan A. Stone
Politics

An Afterthought on Indyref

Overnight, the hopeful, broad-based, grassroots independence movement gave rise to the righteous wronged.

  • Stephen Phelan
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A Bit of Proust

Anne Carson's The Albertine Workout.

  • Benjamin Landry
Philosophy Politics

Rethinking Privacy

A little surveillance can do us a lot of good.

  • William H. Simon
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Microreview: Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Chord Box

Poems to make music to.

  • Carina del Valle Schorske

Is Pakistan in ISIS’ Crosshairs?

  • C. Christine Fair
Politics

Conservatives are Driving Americans Away from Religion

Religiously-inflected politics of personal morality alienated more recently-born moderate and liberal Americans from the church.

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  • Meghan Privitello
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Chiasson’s Kindness

On Bicentennial.

  • Scott Bartley

The Evidence of Memory

Memories are not a record of the past; when evoked, they adjust to the current context.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
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