Perspectives

Renowned linguist John Baugh, the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences, discusses speech patterns, accents and how they can help or harm us for the BBC podcast “Deeply Human.”

Gicela Medina and Rodrigo Viqueira, graduate students in Arts & Sciences, explore the ways public space has been politically used by marginalized groups across the Americas. They share findings in a podcast funded by The Divided City, an urban humanities initiative at WashU.

Our research finds that race significantly shapes Americans’ attitudes toward judicial nominees, writes Andrew Stone, postdoctoral research assistant in political science.

In this Q&A, philosopher John Heil, in Arts & Sciences, discusses his new books and questions about reality and how we reconcile the world as it appears with the picture of the world presented by scientific analysis.

Poet Carl Phillips’ work was published in The Atlantic.

Academics are exceptional at learning, problem-solving, and rising to a challenge. I think that we are ready to create these needed changes, and I believe that we must, writes Allison Antes.

Arts & Sciences undergraduate students Will Leidig and Mishka Narasimha are co-hosts of “Masterminds,” a student-led science and medicine podcast that interviews faculty members about groundbreaking research. Recent guests include Ray Arvidson, Michael Kinch and Rebecca Messbarger.

There has never been any mystery about the jurisprudential premises of Justice Stephen Breyer’s approach to issues of public law, writes Ronald Levin.

This video from The Commonwealth Fund explores the history of racism in American health care and highlights a program involving Washington University that is working to change course — starting with doctors in training.

Rafia Zafar in Arts & Sciences discusses “We Wear The Mask” (1895), an influential poem by African-American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), for the “Poetry For All” podcast. She also delves into broader themes of African American history and literature.