The basic role of Jews is defined as creating a motivating contrast between the mass of the people who often get into trouble, and the subsequently arising leader (prophet) who calls for conscience in order to help the people to survive the trouble.

Persons of faith are now seeking religious exemptions from laws concerning sex, reproduction, and marriage on the ground that the law makes the objector complicit in the assertedly sinful conduct of others. We term claims of this kind, which were at issue in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, complicity-based conscience claims. Complicity-based conscience claims differ in form and in social logic f...

Do superdelegates heed public opinion in deciding whom to support in nomination contests or do they follow their own conscience? We examine both individual and environmental factors peculiar to superdelegate decision making to ascertain whether and how they integrate populist considerations into their nomination choices. Via a survey of superdelegates in the 2008 presidential nomination contest...

The basic role of Jews is defined as creating a motivating contrast between the mass of the people who often get into trouble, and the subsequently arising leader (prophet) who calls for conscience in order to help the people to survive the trouble.

he letters that Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his younger brother, Theo, document this painter’s thoughts over a period of 20 years with the same brilliance and clarity of his canvases. As a contribution to literature, these letters stand on the same level as Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks and far above Benvenuto Cellini’s autobiography. They reveal that Van Gogh was stifled by depression often thro...

Le travail est désormais assuré d'avoir toute la bonne conscience de son côté : la propensionà la joie se nomme déjà " besoin de repos " et commencè a se ressentir comme un sujet de honte. [...] Oui, il se pourrait bien qu'on en vˆıntà ne point céderà un penchant pour la vita contemplativa (c'est-` a-dire pour aller se promener avec ses pensées et ses amis) sans mauvaise conscience et mépris de...

the architectural education along the way of creativity has often involved with the formal and physical aspects of design as an effort to read architectural artifacts through its mere external appearances. this article, however, aims to step beyond the manifestation of conventional perspectives on visual aspects of built environment. that is, an act of interpreting the architectural spaces thro...