What are norms, and why do they matter for international relations? How do they help to guide and constitute state behaviour at the international level, as well as behaviour by other actors like international...
The German Weimar Republic lasted a mere fifteen years, from the end of the First World War to Hitler’s dictatorship in 1933. It nevertheless became the paradigmatic historical event shaping political...
The constitutions of the fifty states in the United States create by their authority as fundamental law the structure of government and the means and mechanisms of governance for state, local, and special...
1 Background In 1873 the French mathematician Emil Mathieu published a paper in which he ’glued’ together copies of the projective special linear group L2(23) acting on the 24-point projective...
Starting in 2015, in the wake of the shooting of ten members of the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC by white supremacist Dylann Roof, a movement grew to dismantle the icons of the Confederacy throughout...
The headline shouts, “Genetics is a big reason divorce runs in families.” It is common nowadays to hear that some surprising aspect of human behavior is “heritable.” Often it is said about intelligence,...
This year’s Nobel prize in physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for `foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks´(press...
Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most widely read and influential texts in medieval Europe. Its influence can be clearly seen in philosophical works as diverse as Thomas Aquinas’...
‘Read as one of the masterpieces by a person not acquainted with our literature, it might easily give an impression that this literature is not immense’. Henry James’s words in his introduction...
We are the kind of people who are always interested in the strongest example of something, the paragon. When we eat Swiss cheese (Emmental), we want our senses to tell us that; we shouldn’t...
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded on October 7th to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs). This ground-breaking finding transformed our understanding...
In the midst of the Anglo-Irish War, on 21 August 1920, fourteen IRA volunteers attacked a farm owned by the Corscadden family at Carricknahorna in the hills of South Donegal. This was later the family...