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‘Meditation,’ by Lei Yixin, near the picnic pavilion in Lake Phalen Regional Park. City of Saint Paul

May 22, 2024

Successful city parks make diverse communities feel safe and welcome − this Minnesota park is an example

Dan Trudeau, Macalester College

City parks are like outdoor living rooms: If people feel welcome and relaxed, they will settle in.

A stuffed toy at the site of collapsed buildings after the earthquake in Hatay, Turkey, 17 February 2023. Martin Divisek/EPA

April 13, 2023

Friday essay: in an age of catastrophe is there still a place for utopian dreams? Or might our shared vulnerability be the key?

Bryan Stanley Turner, Australian Catholic University

It is easy to feel jaded in a time of catastrophe but there is a compelling moral argument for us to work towards a better world.

Marx, Madison or God? Who said it first…or at all? Bettmann/Corbis/ Lucas Schifres via Getty Images

September 4, 2020

‘From each according to ability; to each according to need’ – tracing the biblical roots of socialism’s enduring slogan

Luc Bovens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

At the height of Reaganism, close to half of Americans believed a phrase popularized by Karl Marx actually derived from the US Constitution. It doesn’t, but scholars have traced it to the Bible.

August 30, 2018

What was the first Bible like?

Tomas Bokedal, University of Aberdeen

The curious case of Bible #1, and how much we actually know about it.

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