Interview: Dieter Helm

Dieter Schnebel: Spiritual Music Today

This article presents an annotated English translation of the composer-theologian Dieter Schnebel’s seminal essay exploring music’s spiritual capacities. Speaking explicitly from his time and place, Schnebel considers compositional questions arising from the most advanced new music of European modernism. The approach is driven by insights derived from Marxist critical theory and the “new theolo...

Demagogues at the helm.

Amazing, mind-boggling, incomprehensible, indefensible. The decision by the Federal Government to abolish the mandatory long-form of the census may be the worst policy decision of the past decade in Canada. The impact of this decision, if it is not reversed, will be felt for many years to come and, if it remains in effect over other census cycles or if it is a harbinger of things to come, could...

At the helm of the NIDDK.

As of April 2007, Griffin P. Rodgers has taken over as director of the NIDDK, but had been the deputy director under Allen Spiegel since 2001 and the chief of Hematology since 1998. The JCI took the opportunity to ask this career investigator in the NIH about his goals and visions for the NIDDK. JCI: You moved quickly from chief of Hematology to deputy director of the NIDDK to director — what d...

Statement for Karl - Dieter Crisman

My current research is primarily in the mathematics of voting. This discipline lies at the interface of mathematics, political science, and economics, though it has connections to any field which could involve aggregation of preferences, such as statistics or psychology. It also is a proven, fertile field for undergraduate research. The math of voting, in its classical form, asks questions abou...

An interview with Alex Joyner and Liz Robertson: development editors at the helm of Developmental Biology Societies.