Finlayson traces their dispute from its inception in their earliest works to the 1995 exchange and its aftermath, as well as its legacy in contemporary debates...

"American Resistance" follows activists from the streets back to their congressional districts around the country...

Fong revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery...

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...

In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?"

Barstow explores the tension between Buddhist ethics and Tibetan cultural norms to offer a novel perspective on the spiritual and social dimensions of meat eating...

Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization relates to the electoral influence of federal spending...

Threatening Property examines the campaigns for residential segregation in early-20th century North Carolina...

How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)?

Kassab shows her readers that the demands for human dignity, freedom, and political participation had been robustly discussed by intellectuals in Syria and Egypt during the 1990s and 2000s...

Why would the Chinese Communist Party revive this former ritual? What powers lie in the symbolism of the “Golden Urn”?

Personalized healthcare―or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"―is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model...

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South...

Burchett re-examines what we assume about the rise of devotionalism in North India, tracing its flowering since India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” to present day...

Christopher Peacock, with a contribution from Lauran Hartley, masterfully introduces the work of contemporary Tibetan author Tsering Döndrup...

Kerim Yasar argues that modern technologies of sound reproduction and transmission have had profound—and often underappreciated—social, economic, and political effects...

Matthew W. King tells the story of Zawa Damdin, one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times, revealing an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject...

The fact that Korea’s experience of Japanese imperialism plays a role in present-day Japan-Korea relations is no secret to anyone

In the post–Cold War era, states increasingly find themselves in conflicts with nonstate actors...

Jill Stauffer argues that survivors of unjust treatment and dehumanization can experience further harm when individuals and institutions will not or cannot hear the survivors’ claims...

Why do people live where they do? What explains the persistence of residential segregation?

Entering into psychoanalysis takes courage, for patients and analysts alike...

In the early days of film, female comedians appeared in films that included both strange activities and slapstick....

Ranging across Heidegger, Buddhism, Christianity, German idealism, Russian literature, and mathematics, Kojève advances a novel argument about freedom and authority...

Thomas Patton examines the weizzā, a figure in Burmese Buddhism who is possessed with extraordinary supernatural powers, usually gained through some sort of esoteric practice...