Perspectives

Nancy E. Berg, professor of Hebrew language and literature

In my new book “The Random Factor,” I explain why of the five major U.S. team sports – basketball, football, baseball, hockey and soccer – the one with the greatest amount of luck involved in wins and losses is hockey, writes Mark Rank.

Given that research shows workforce diversity helps companies boost profits, it’s surprising to me that more leaders don’t take this approach. The alternative is letting a false narrative that imperils their growth go unchallenged, writes Adia Harvey WIngfield.

Missouri employers can become global leaders in offering benefits packages that provide paid new child leave and ensure their continued competitiveness in an ever-globalizing labor market, writes PhD student Nicole Strombom.

The people of Hong Kong face a dynamic future as residents of the greatest business center of the Asia-Pacific region. Young people have enormous opportunities to participate in the city’s future growth as China’s window to global capital, writes David Meyer.

Hideo Kojima’s action RPG, Death Stranding (2019), reflects the emotional challenges of parenting. It resists easy answers to these challenges, writes Gabrielle Kirilloff.

Phillip Maciak, a TV critic and a senior lecturer in Arts & Sciences, writes a review of the new police comedy-drama “Elsbeth.”

Mathematicians work can help researchers understand how events might align in a way that leads to catastrophic failure, writes John Edward McCarthy.

While a highly qualified student applying to a dozen very selective universities will in all likelihood be accepted into at least one, the specific university they are admitted to may be the luck of the draw, writes Mark Rank.

‘Elsbeth’ takes a boilerplate police procedural and tosses in a character from another show entirely — with delightful results, writes Phillip Maciak.