Perspectives

Who defines American values? In their respective reckonings with the Confederacy – and with modern racial justice movements – relocated Confederate statues are bellwethers of ongoing struggles to resolve this question, writes David Cunningham.

Graduate students Addison Schwamb and BethAnna Jones discuss how they use math to describe how the brain works and how it helps them explore applications in patient care on a recent episode of the “Engineering the Future” podcast.

Chemist Sophia Hayes, in Arts & Sciences, spoke on a podcast episode exploring the highs and lows of helium, a valuable and nonrenewable resource.

We advocate for broader application of these principals to support gender-transformative parenting programming that is tailored to address gender-based violence in humanitarian settings and that will continue to build the respective evidence base, write Lindsay Stark, Ilana Seff and Melissa Meinhart.

Poet and critic Eileen G’Sell, in Arts & Sciences, has published the collection “Francofilaments,” which is touted as “a poetic exploration of the intersections between Francophilia, feminism and cinema.”

Lest we become the unwitting victims to a premature political triumphalism, it behooves us to resist the allure of a cheap post-racialism (a cruel optimism) that some on the right will no doubt be selling to an increasingly manipulable electorate over the next few years, writes Thembelani Mbatha.

In the digital age, the museum selfie has become ubiquitous. But it’s not necessarily rooted in vanity, writes E.B. Hunter, an assistant professor of drama in Arts & Sciences. Such images also can serve as a way of appropriating art and creating more meaningful experiences.

As Joe Biden, arguably the most pro-labor president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, departs the White House, and Donald Trump’s team gets ready to move back in, I believe that prospects for the growth in union members in the near future appear exceedingly bleak, writes Jake Rosenfeld.

you have to understand what drives these betting markets — the bettors. They are betting on nothing more substantial than the “vibes” that once made Harris’s victory seem inevitable earlier this summer, writes Liberty Vittert.

The evidence presented here suggests that we need a more nuanced understanding of how Black Americans engage in politics. This reconsideration will help to see Black voters outside of a binary: either the saviors of American democracy – or the scapegoats of the Democratic party, when the party falls short, writes Michael Strawbridge.