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  • Smile, You're on Camera: Behind the Lens of 24/7 Surveillance

    Smile, You're on Camera: Behind the Lens of 24/7 Surveillance

    “Even a strutting exhibitionist has something to hide: certain diary entries, genetic predispositions, financial mistakes, medical crises, teenage embarrassments, antisocial compulsions, sexual fantasies,...
  • Sick: The Poetics of Modern Health Care

    Sick: The Poetics of Modern Health Care

    ...And all the while, I kept thinking about that great old Whitman  poem... ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.’ I...I don’t know it. Anyway... Well, can you recite it? Pathetically enough,...
  • Tropical Storm: How Cuba Sent Revolutionary Waves Around the World

    Tropical Storm: How Cuba Sent Revolutionary Waves Around the World

    When it comes to staging a revolution, timing is everything. In 1959 an island nation of 7 million revolted against its U.S.-backed dictator, and with its subsequent export of revolution to Latin America...
  • The Journey Continues: Rapoport Scholars Fulfill a Commitment to Community and Civic Life

    The Journey Continues: Rapoport Scholars Fulfill a Commitment to Community and Civic Life

    It began with a daring escape from Siberia that involved walking more than 600 miles. After five years of exile, a Russian revolutionary named David Rapoport found refuge in Belgium, and in 1913 he immigrated...

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Information Quest: Undergraduate Research Week 2018
 Posted on 20 Apr 2018

On April 19, a group of hand-picked liberal arts students who have conducted exceptional research projects presented them...

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Psychology Junior Interns with Renowned Mental Illness Advocacy Organization
 14 Mar 2018

Women’s Magic Hour: A Q&A Starring Donna Kornhaber
 08 Feb 2018


Small But Powerful Moments: An IRG Senior’s Experience Abroad
 02 Feb 2018

Where India Goes
 18 Jan 2018



Commentary

The Dead Deserve Peace and Privacy
 Posted on 23 Jan 2018

“To display the dead, after all, is what the enemy does,” writes Susan Sontag in Regarding the Suffering of Others. Logan...

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U.S. Interests Hurt By Withdrawal From UNESCO
 11 Jan 2018

How Hanukkah Has Changed in the U.S.
 11 Jan 2018


Life Is Very Big and We Are All So Small
 05 Jan 2018

Tis the Season to Learn About Our Loved Ones
 19 Dec 2017



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