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It's a big day for University of Saskatchewan professor Rainer Dick and indeed all theoretical physicists. 
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity has now been with us for 100 years, and while some people do understand what it actually means, for others it's an equation, and that's about it. More...

By Tracy Mitrano. In 1964 the historian and political observer Richard Hofstadter published an essay entitled “The Paranoid Style of American Politics.” Worked into a book of the same title, it emerged in the aftermath of the McCarthy era and in the middle of the Goldwater presidential campaign. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. Japanese and American professors clash over a textbook's depiction of the Japanese government's involvement in a system of sexual slavery during World War II. Read more...

By Andrew Rudalevige. In the 1980s and ’90s, the political-science subfield of presidential studies devoted itself to holding conferences decrying the state of presidential studies. I attended a late iteration, held at Columbia University in 1996. A graduate student at the time, I was an unarmed observer of the waning skirmishes in the methods wars. More...

By John Herron. American patriots aren’t what they used to be. Thomas Jefferson’s position on slavery was as complicated as it was unfortunate. George Washington, too, was tainted by slavery, but revelations about his unrepentant elitism have done little to enhance his reputation. For all of Benjamin Franklin’s contributions to the republic, he was also flawed. He loved his wife, but had you been his neighbor in Philadelphia he probably would have loved your wife as well. Only Abraham Lincoln remains. More...