Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Eric Zillmer, Professor of Neuropsychology, Drexel University Olivia Weaver, in foreground, is an American professional squash player from Philadelphia who is ranked No. 4 in the world. Courtesy US Squash What sport combines the intensity of a high-wire circus act with the strategic thinking of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Art Jipson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton What looks like a fitness group could actually be a white supremacist training cell. starush/iStock via Getty Images Small local organizations called Active Clubs have spread widely across the U.S. and internationally, using fitness as a cover…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Sam Wineburg, Emeritus Professor of Education, Stanford University Smartphones are a window into a world of misinformation. Jacob Wackerhausen/iStock via Getty Images Mike Evans knew something had to change. As the lead instructor for American Government 1101 at Georgia State University in 2021, Evans had watched…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Barbara Kates-Garnick, Professor of Practice in Energy Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University When the Trump administration announced it was moving to eliminate dozens of U.S. climate policies, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said he was sending “a dagger straight into the heart of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Eric Kevin Stern, Professor of Political Science, Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, University at Albany, State University of New York National Guard trucks carry rescued residents through floodwaters to the Superdome on Aug. 30, 2005, a day after Hurricane Katrina hit in New…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Mark Daley, Professor & Chief AI Officer, Western University Grok is a generative artificial intelligence (genAI) chatbot by xAI that, according to Elon Musk, is “the smartest AI in the world.” Grok’s latest upgrade is Ani, a porn-enabled anime girlfriend, recently joined by a boyfriend informed…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Neil McArthur, Director, Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of Manitoba The United Kingdom recently launched a broad system of age verification that requires any platforms that host pornography or other “harmful” content to ensure their users are 18 or older. Around the world, large…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Glen Hvenegaard, Professor, Environmental Science, University of Alberta On a cold winter night in a rural area, I looked through a scope to see the rings of Saturn for the first time. Connecting grade school science book descriptions with a real life view amazed me. Even…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – France – By Raysa Geaquinto Rocha, Lecturer at the University of Essex and Assistant Professor at the VU Amsterdam, European Academy of Management (EURAM) Think about the last time you chatted with a colleague by the coffee machine, grabbed lunch with a colleague, or reached out to someone to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Caroline Séquin, Associate Professor of Modern European History, Lafayette College Desiring Whiteness is an award-winning book by historian Caroline Séquin. It explores the intertwined histories of commercial sex work and racial politics in France and the French colonial empire, particularly in Senegal. We asked her five…