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When Michel de Montaigne asked his famous question, “What do I know? (Qui sçay-je?)” in the longest of his essays, “An Apology for Raymond Sebond,” what he was asking was...
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African History
I didn’t set out to write a book about freedom, or about the Black Atlantic. I thought I was writing a history of education in postcolonial West Africa. But the longer I spent in...
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Philosophy & Religion
This new book, Providence, Evil and Salvation – a Thomist Perspective attempts to address some questions central to the Christian faith: How can we square the belief in God with...
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Philosophy & Religion
One of the enduring assumptions in the study of religion is that belief in the devil emerged as an attempt to explain the existence of evil. Before modern psychology, sociology, or...
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History & Classics
When people think about the Anthropocene—the age in which human activities have become a major force shaping the Earth’s climate, ecosystems, and geology—they usually picture...
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Architecture
While a university student, by chance I took an elective course in glassblowing. One of the first things I remember is learning how to hold the heavy metal blowpipe. Against the soundtrack...
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Art History
Italian Renaissance painter, author, architect, and poet Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for his multi-volume Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects...
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In 2000, while working in the rare books collection of Mexico’s National Library, I encountered something that caught me off guard. As I flipped through the card catalogue of...
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European History
A society’s true measure of success is its capacity to deal with failure. In the mid–seventeenth century, this is just what we can observe in the city of Amsterdam, at the time...
Read MoreMilitary History
When is a bullet too deadly to use? When it is banned in the law of war. But why, in a world of deeply violent weapons, would a bullet be considered too violent when these others are...
Read MoreBoth climate change and the ocean have always been topics I felt drawn to. Both felt scientific, urgent, and practical, and they somehow involved the outdoors, which, for me, as a lawyer working inside...
Our guess is that most people’s arms are still bolted tightly to their sides. If so, this book is for you. Constitutionalising Anarchy blows a hole in the conventional claim made by legal and political...
Transnational repression, understood as the extraterritorial repressive actions by states against members of their national community abroad, has become a global phenomenon. One commentator even suggested...
Every day there is a media story about public opposition to immigration fueling the populist far-right in Europe. Academic public opinion research has a similar slant, with endless studies about...
In the summer of 1999, I was studying English at a language center in Canada, one voice among hundreds of accents crowding the poster-lined hallways. A teacher there, Mr. Wilson, was not someone I had...
In 2015, a group of Danish and Brazilian researchers gathered in Belo Horizonte for what we jokingly called The First International Workshop on Learning in Practice. We chose that title with a certain...
When Maria de la Concepción boarded the ship out of Lisbon bound for Brazil, she never could have anticipated her eventual challenges. After providing an enslaved woman in Mexico with a love potion,...
When Michel de Montaigne asked his famous question, “What do I know? (Qui sçay-je?)” in the longest of his essays, “An Apology for Raymond Sebond,” what he was asking was whether he could know...
Few things stir emotions and financial markets quite like artificial intelligence, yet too few people understand how it’s made, how it’s measured, how it intersects with the law, and what its societal...
Presidents have long sought to shape the federal bureaucracy. But few have challenged it as aggressively as Donald Trump. Throughout his political career, Trump has argued that unelected bureaucrats—the...
Why would a psychiatric institution publish a periodical in the nineteenth century? This is the question I asked myself ten years ago, when I read the following sentence on the website of the Royal...
Three decades ago, I came across an old report on the state of legal education in the colonies of the British Empire. I learned from the report that there were very few law schools in most of the empire....
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