Academic Perspective

Take a moment to think about the past week in your life. What stress, if any, did you experience? What could have been the source of that stress? The American Psychiatric Association consistently cites one sweeping cause of stress in its national and focus group studies: feeling overburdened. Now reflect on your personal responses to that feeling [...]

The Nazi party didn’t die with Hitler. Neo-Nazism is still present around the world, but especially in Germany. Many Germans are disgusted by the far-right group while others still adhere to the group’s rhetoric. Despite the country’s calculated efforts to stamp out its extremist past, the neo-Nazi movement remains alive and well in Germany, forging [...]

It can be a daunting task to find people who respect the sport of soccer in the United States, despite its status as the most loved sport in the world. Americans turn to other pastimes, most prominently baseball, basketball, football, and hockey. While I love all of these sports, a year of watching “the people’s [...]

The world of the 21st century has gone a long way in linking people in ways previously unheard of.  Emerging as the lingua franca of the world, English sits atop other languages in many respects.  It is the language of science, aviation, computing, tourism, and more importantly, diplomacy.  Competition, however, is an inevitable consequence for [...]