Highlights
Podcast Discusses Parenting, Screentime, Religion, and Education
On The Learning Curve podcast, Institute Fellow of Practice Gerard Robinson and his cohost interview Naomi Schaefer Riley, author of Be The Parent, Please.
Book Edited by Davis and Scherz Wins Two Awards
The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well, a volume of essays coedited by Institute Colloquy Chair Joseph E. Davis and Institute Visiting Fellow Paul Scherz, has received two book awards.
Hoipkemier publishes "For Love or Money" in Public Discourse
Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Mark Hoipkemier suggests considering a business not just in terms of profit and loss but also as “a moral community in its own right.”
Rosen Identifies a Potential "Disaster for Journalism"
In a May 2021 piece for Commentary, Institute Colloquy Chair Christine Rosen explores the degree to which some journalists seem to be confusing criticism with trauma—and what that confusion may mean for journalism.
Davis and Scherz Guest-Edit a Special Issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
The journal is devoting an entire issue to “Being Human in the Age of the Brain: Models of Mind and Their Social Effects,” which was the theme of a two-day Institute symposium in 2020.
In the New York Times, Hunter Says the Culture Wars "Are Tilting toward a Progressive Win"
Institute Founder James Davison Hunter is quoted extensively in a New York Times op-ed titled “The Marriage Between Republicans and Big Business Is on the Rocks.”
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