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39mins
A conversation with the historian and social scientist at the Institute for Advanced Study.
7mins
Masculinity was partly to blame for the obscure financial instruments that caused us so much grief.
6mins
Drugs like Ritalin essentially work to make male behavior more female-like.
3mins
Some animals exhibit behaviors that are not unlike our religious ceremonies.
5mins
Some religions are better than others in providing a peace of mind, a sense of social comfort, a sense of decency.
2mins
“When you’re dealing with theoretical issues like who serves God better that becomes rapidly rather frightening and unattached to any reality.”
2mins
Sex can cause “all sorts of ruckus in all sorts of lives on an endless basis.” That’s why religions make a point of regulating it.
4mins
“People who are religious might well be healthier because they help each other more.”
5mins
Believing in God generates soothing “juices” in the brain that make us feel good.
47mins
A conversation with the Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.
2mins
Control the things you can about your diet and environment, and get politically active around the things you can’t.
7mins
One in three babies is delivered via Caesarian section. “This is unacceptable and of course it’s going to produce harm.”
10mins
Mainstream media messages lead us to be totally dissatisfied with who and what we are—and make us into consumers of products and procedures rather than contributors to our community.
5mins
How women should think about their role in a society where prescriptions are everywhere.
7mins
When the collective started forty years ago, there was a “knowledge gap” and a dearth of information about women’s health issues.
34mins
A conversation with the Executive Director of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective.
2mins
Many Muslims feel excluded from Europe’s political process, yet the internal divisions of Islam have prevented believers from making common cause.
1mins
How America’s Tea Party movement connects to the larger anxieties about globalization.
4mins
Looking for a model of successful multiculturalism? You could do worse than former European colonies such as India and Indonesia.
2mins
If the French political thinker and historian returned to the modern-day U.S., he would find that some of his most pessimistic predictions have come true.