Interview with Rev. Fr. Abbot Philip Anderson: We Must All Build Bridges

This is an excerpt of a crucial dialogue engaged in by a Hindu and an Orthodox Roman Catholic. The excerpt touches on evil and the supernatural

Quantum psychoid freewill ? Excerpt by.

What we've considered so far about the epistemology of human sciences comes up again as to the concept of "destiny''and human free will: who "must" tell us if we are destined or not? Either Neuroscientists or sociologists? Either Philosophers or biochemists? Has psychology anything to say? Do we need a pool to gather them all? Many other questions come up: what determines us and how much? ls there any sense in talking about destiny? We are a complex system and our conscience is an epiphenomenon of a unitary hierarchical system: would this exclude any possibility of choice? And what does "free choice" mean? And what about the consequences on the ethics? Being Jung and Pauli’s thought a reference point, might we outline a comprehensive reading as regards such problems, even thinking of a sort of quantum psychoid free will

Pennsylvania at Chancellorsville, But Headed Back Home

With the anniversary of the battles around Fredericksburg this week, the Civil War world\u27s eyes seem to be turned toward Chancellorsville and the battles there. Almost as a reflex, my mind has gone there too. I\u27ve been thinking about Simon Stein Wolf, the Gettysburgian who faced death at Chancellorsville only to find it terribly displayed in the days after. So today another excerpt from my manuscript, to start re-conceptualizing Chancellorsville through the eyes of a Pennsylvania College dropout. [excerpt

Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation

Excerpt from Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies, edited by Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung, and Takayuki Tatsum

“Lost in Translation? Transnational American Rock Music of the Sixties and its Misreading in 1980s China”

Excerpt from The Power of Culture: Encounters between China and the United States, edited by Priscilla Robert

“Oceania as Peril and Promise: Towards a Worlded Vision of Transpacific Ecopoetics”

Excerpt from Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistempologies, and Transpacific American Studies, edited by Yuan Shu, Otto Heim, and Kendall Johnso

Excerpt of A Tale In Three Beginnings

Though this is only a short glimpse into the lives of the Owens girls, what you need to know is this: Jeremy Rollins is missing and may never be seen again. Perhaps this isn\u27t so strange, and perhaps his wife should have seen it coming; after all, the history of their abandonment has followed them since Jomar Ferrer left her grandmother some fifty years ago. In this excerpt, you are introduced to four very important beginnings in the story of the Owens girls

Preface

[Excerpt] The six short essays in this modest publication assess the impact upon industrial relations of the accelerating democratization of American life

“Colonial Problems, Transnational American Studies”

Excerpt from After American Studies: Rethinking Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalis