Snapshots of City Life: Music, Commuter Cycling, and Other Stories
A collection of recent online stories that highlight and examine different facets of city life.
Deans Care About Books
By clinging to the idea that that humanities and humanistic social science scholarship must take the form of a print book, scholars and deans threaten the future of university presses and erode their ability to evaluate and distribute high-quality scholarship.
Assessing Urban Complexity: Thriving Cities Conference Recap
Last month, the Thriving Cities Project gathered together practitioners and scholars from around the country for a two day conference to recap and assess research, project goals, and current findings.
Twilight of an Idol: College, Purpose, and Zombies
College has come to bear an impossible burden, both individually and socially. Its most confident advocates treat it like a stand-alone ethical resource, capable of funding and guiding the self- transformations of America's elite.
The Magic of Mayors?
Noah Toly review of Benjamin Barber's new book If Mayors Rules the World offers critical insight and originality into current discussions regarding the future of urban governance in a globalized world.
And Who Is a Person? The Problem with Hobby Lobby (Part II)
Posted on July 23, 2014
in THR Web Features
Does the Hobby Lobby decision not call for a better concept of corporate personhood that would allow us to differentiate between various types of entities and religious liberty claims?
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