For those perplexed by how American politics are so profoundly manipulated by Moral-Majority types, historian Nancy L. Cohen’s latest book has many of the answers. Well-researched and coolly incisive on the hot-button social... Read More

Archimedes experienced it when he jumped from his bath to exclaim “Eureka!” at the realization that he could determine the density of an object by the amount of water it displaces. Charles Darwin experienced it when the idea of... Read More

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a human event of such enormous repercussions that it envelops both mind and body. According to Susan Pease Banitt, in her book The Trauma Tool Kit: Healing PTSD From the Inside Out, “PTSD is a... Read More

Diplomacy requires new talking skills, creativity, and, most important, the ability of leaders to persuade their counterparts to support common goals in a post-Cold War world fraught with terrorism, nuclear proliferation, declining... Read More

Any well-informed person who is absolutely convinced that neither they nor any member of their family, nor anyone close to them, will ever have need of a doctor, hospital, or prescription drugs during the next hundred years can ignore... Read More

On December 19, 2011, a Nashville newspaper carried a story about the construction of an all-faiths chapel at the nearby Fort Campbell military base that will cost taxpayers $8.4 million. A smaller article in the same issue noted that a... Read More

In Teresa J. Scollon’s opening poem, “The Invitation,” she carries readers into a gentle night of watching stars as a young child with her parents: “When I awoke, I was already in her arms.” From this gentleness, she travels... Read More

"June Fourth Elegies" is the first book of poetry translated into English by Chinese political dissident Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. A leading activist during the Tiananmen Square protests and author of the human... Read More