In this course, students will have the opportunity to dig deeply into their own creativity and explore the processes by which ideas emerge and are given shape in the arts. The experiential nature of ...

Sarah Stroup has taught at Middlebury since 2008 and is the incoming director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research. During her 2025-26 sabbatical year, she was a senior visiting fellow ...

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Research and writing on this paper was led by one of CTEC’s Winter Term interns. For safety reasons, we are publishing this piece anonymously. If you are a journalist, researcher, or other ...

A still from the movie Blade Runner (1982). (Credit: Luke Dowding ) Why do some dystopian narratives mobilize people to commit political or terrorist acts, while others do not? Dystopian narratives ...

Starseeds, a collection of New Age spiritualists who believe their souls originated on another planet, espouse a syncretic belief system combining esotericism, shamanic practices, as well as elements ...

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The Aryan Nations compound in Idaho was demolished after being sold off in the early 2000s. During the late 20th century, the Aryan Nations served as one of the most important Christian Identity and ...

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National Action was a neofascist, militant accelerationist terrorist organization active in the United Kingdom from 2013 until its proscription in 2017, being the first far-right group to be banned in ...