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List of Topics

Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
  • The Dangers of Artificial Intelligence: Moral and Practical Considerations [Mitch Marcus]
  • ENIAC: The Birth of Modern Computing and the First (Women) Programmers [Mitch Marcus]
  • ENIAC: The First Modern Computer [Mitch Marcus]
  • What is Artificial Intelligence?  How does it work? [Mitch Marcus]
  • Why AI isn’t going to Take Over the World [Mitch Marcus]
Health, Medicine, Biology
History, Culture, Literature
  • A Thousand and One Nights: a Tale of Two Tale-Collections [Roger Allen]
  • ENIAC: The Birth of Modern Computing and the First (Women) Programmers [Mitch Marcus]
  • ENIAC: The First Modern Computer [Mitch Marcus]
  • The Joseph Story: Genesis, the Qur’an, and Chartres Cathedral [Roger Allen]
  • Shakespeare and Women [Phyllis Rackin]
  • Translating Arabic Fiction [Roger Allen]
  • What We Owe to the History of Spain (illustrated) [Roger Allen]
International Affairs, Politics, Policy, and Law 
  • American Politics in Historical Perspective [Walter Licht]
  • America’s Conflicting Constitutional Visions: The Quest for Common Ground [Rogers M. Smith]
  • America’s New Racial Divides: Protect versus Repair [Rogers M. Smith]
  • BDS: What is the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement [Ian Lustick]
  • Israel and the Palestinians: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality [Ian Lustick]
  • Ranked Choice Voting [Jack Nagel]
  • A Plan to Reform the Pennsylvania General Assembly [Jack Nagel]
  • A Remedy for the Electoral College [Jack Nagel]
  • Toward Better Stories of American Identity [Rogers M. Smith]
  • What is a “paradigm” and how does it “shift?” [Ian Lustick]
  • What is “critical theory” and is it dangerous? [Ian Lustick]
  • Where did Zionism come from and where is it going? [Ian Lustick]
Sociology, Religion, and Philosophy
Special Topics
  • Higher Powers: Superheroes and American Visions of Virtue and Justice [Rogers M. Smith]
  • How I Got a Letter from Abeche, Chad: the history, pre-history, and politics of one of Africa’s most troubled countries (as told through its stamps) [Scott Poethig]