Differentiating Authentication from Authorization
Authentication verifies WHO you are with passwords or biometrics. Authorization determines WHAT you can access based on permissions and roles.
December 2025
March 2025
Social Movement Theory: History and Modern Context
Gender is one of the most consequential and contested concepts in modern life. A rigorous guide to the biology, psychology, cross-cultural...
January 2025
Stereotype Threat: When Fear of Confirming Becomes Real
In 1995, Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson gave Black and white Stanford students a difficult verbal test.
April 2024
What Is Nationalism? Its Historical Roots and Influence
A deep exploration of nationalism — its origins in the French Revolution and Romantic era, its varieties from civic to ethnic to anti-colonial,...
February 2024
Understanding the Self Through Philosophy and Neuroscience
What is the self? Explore Hume, Parfit, Metzinger, and neuroscience on personal identity, the default mode network, and the narrative construction...