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Comment By Connie Lamb, Connie Lamb
Comment By Connie Lamb, Connie Lamb
Comparative Civilizations Review
The Coronavirus pandemic put a halt to many normal activities. One of the institutions heavily impacted by the virus is libraries.
Comment By David Wilkinson, David Wilkinson
Comment By David Wilkinson, David Wilkinson
Comparative Civilizations Review
In his life, Sorokin was variously a starving peasant orphan, an itinerant icon gilder, a self-taught bookworm, a political activist, a six-time political prisoner, an empirical penologist, a quantitative sociologist, a Socialist Revolutionary, a starving intellectual worker, an involuntary passenger on the Ship of Expelled Russian Thinkers, a founding comparative civilizationist, a conservative Christian anarchist, a Tolstoyan believer that “the Kingdom of God is within you,” and an elected write-in candidate for President of the American Sociological Association.
Comment By Michael Andregg, Michael Andregg
Comment By Michael Andregg, Michael Andregg
Comparative Civilizations Review
We have already determined that global civilization is experiencing a flurry of interrelated crises that challenge many things we hold dear, in extremis, human survival.
Comment By David Rosner, David Rosner
Comment By David Rosner, David Rosner
Comparative Civilizations Review
Human beings need to “make sense” out of the world, but our world is sometimes unintelligible.
Comment By John Grayzel, John Grayzel
Comment By John Grayzel, John Grayzel
Comparative Civilizations Review
There is no question that pandemics can shake up a seemingly stable set of circumstances and, in that way, affect history.
Comment By Andrew Targowski, Andrew Targowski
Comment By Andrew Targowski, Andrew Targowski
Comparative Civilizations Review
Pandemic 2020, triggered by the coronavirus, reminds us that life on Earth has been evolving for 3.5 billion years from a virus, which is just a deficient bacterium.
Comment By John Berteaux, John Berteaux
Comment By John Berteaux, John Berteaux
Comparative Civilizations Review
In discussions of how the state should react to the current pandemic, one controversial issue has involved whether it should force citizens to wear masks when in public. As a matter of fact, from New Orleans, Louisiana to Turlock, California, and from Aurora, Colorado to San Antonio, Texas, individuals asked to put on a mask have occasionally turned violent.
Comment By Tseegai Isaac, Tseegai Isaac
Comment By Tseegai Isaac, Tseegai Isaac
Comparative Civilizations Review
Ethiopia is celebrated for its ancient biblical civilization. Its political traditions for centuries blended Old and New Testament tenets, creating templates for daily social and religious life.
Comment By Rosemary Gillett-Karam, Rosemary Gillett-Karam
Comment By Rosemary Gillett-Karam, Rosemary Gillett-Karam
Comparative Civilizations Review
The Department of Homeland Security, with its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVIS) arms, announced unexpectedly on July 6 of this year that international students studying in the United States at universities and colleges which were converting to all-online instruction because of the pandemic would become immediately ineligible to continue their enrollment in their college or university courses if their own countries had similar programs available.