The Progler Papers

One of the earliest well-known encounters with the Ben Ali Diary dates from 1896, and was recorded by Joel Chandler Harris, author of the p...

In the early nineteenth century, an African Muslim was living out the rest of his adult life in chattel slavery on a plantation in Antebell...

The call to prayer, azan , pervades Islamic culture. Muslims can hear azan up to five times a day--once for each of the five daily prayers...

Many music educators, myself included, thought Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences was useful when it first appeared. But...

"They opened fire with cannons and bombs on the houses and quarters, aiming specially at the mosque, firing at it with those bombs. T...

Disaffection and activation are intertwined in a multiplicity of ways. They are not necessarily related in a linear, cause and effect type...

Even the most casual observers of current events will notice a tension between Western civilization and Islam. This tension is often made e...

"If the goal of human history is a uniform type of man, reproducing at a uniform rate, in a uniform environment, kept at a constant t...

This essay is a speculation on how recent digitization and simulation technologies are providing a means of mapping cultural processes that ...