Tag Archives: Sociology
Author Response: “Why the Debate on Immigration is All Wrong”
Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother (Random House 2007). A few years ago, in a conversation with my husband’s oldest brother, I said that I thought the only … Continue reading
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Tracy Kidder on Haiti
Tracy Kidder, author of such bestselling books as the college common reading classic Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World and the new, critically-lauded Strength in What Remains, has penned an interesting … Continue reading
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Author Response: “Legalize All Drugs Now!”
Brian O’Dea, author of HIGH: Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler (Other Press 2009), responds to comments posted to his “Legalize All Drugs Now!” essay from September 23rd, 2009. I was interviewed recently by a young reporter who grew up in the midst of … Continue reading
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Your Brain on Swine Flu
by Amanda Ripley, author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why and a contributor to TIME Magazine. One of the strange things about influenza pandemics is that they happen in slow motion, giving us time to reflect. Looking … Continue reading
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Is Empathy Hardwired?
World-renown primatologist Dr. Frans De Waal’s new book, The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society, draws upon decades of research and study, considering such fundamental questions as: Do we have an instinct for compassion? Or is everything … Continue reading
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Why the Debate on Immigration is All Wrong
by Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother (Random House 2007). Congress and the Obama Administration are again proposing new “solutions” to curtail illegal immigration. Sadly, they are the … Continue reading
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Legalize All Drugs Now!
by Brian O’Dea, author of HIGH: Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler (Other Press 2009). “The most important… revolutions all include as their only common feature the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our … Continue reading
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