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I picked up a copy of Joanna L. Dyl’s excellent 2019 book, Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake, purely by chance, while

If you’re even moderately online, you’ve likely crossed paths with TraumaTok (or its cousin, Trauma­Gram): Lots of short videos explicating how myriad hang-ups—including perfectionism and hoarding, people-pleasing and social isolation—are “trauma responses.” There’s advice, too: Stimulating the vagus nerve can be a good self-soothing mechanism. What about “tapping”? That’s when you tap certain pressure points of your body...

Woolsey Professor of Biblical Studies, Emeritus, Meeks helped shape contemporary New Testament and Early Christian studies. He died on Jan. 10.

When the world shut down in 2020, the filmmaker found solace in Don DeLillo’s supposedly unadaptable novel — and turned it into a film that speaks to our deepest fears.

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

In a world where many of our decisions are shaped by random chance, it’s awfully hard to assign moral responsibility.

In a world where many of our decisions are shaped by random chance, it’s awfully hard to assign moral responsibility.

Philosophers tell us that casting blame, while it seems to impose order on chaos, exacts a steep cost.

Now Marjorie Taylor Greene calls three GOP senators “pro-pedophile.” These people are sociopaths.

We need to have conversations about our pain, fears and losses and begin to recognise the unwavering impact it has had on our country, says TraumaClinic Foundation in South Africa’s Kate Solomons.