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In Gillian Tett’s piece on the culture wars in US university anthropology departments (Magazine, FT Weekend, August 27), she cites an essay titled “Why I’m Leaving the University” by Joseph Manson, ...

Anthropologists call it schismogenesis — the process by which one group’s behavior elicits a contrasting response from the other, producing a feedback loop of social differentiation. Left unchecked, ...

The "notion" -- borrowing Barack Obama's favorite word according to Dr. Lee Thornton, the president of American Journalism Review -- that a public intellectual who decides to plunge into the political ...

For many years, I drove around with a bumper sticker on my car that read: Stop complementary schismogenesis! It probably did more to stop traffic than halt the escalating arguments to which it refers, ...

I have noticed lately a curious term that appears repeatedly now in political discussions and in the media. It is a sort of leftist battle cry. The pervasive term is “intersectionality.” This term is ...

Ted Cruz is one of the major players in America's version of schismogenesis. Photo by Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons licensed. The critically acclaimed play about Newfoundland’s ‘Whale Man’ sails ...

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The escalation of religious intolerance has reached a point, according to the noted anthropologist T.M. Luhrman, that people are becoming reluctant to own up to being religious at all. She notes that ...