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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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Latin American History
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...
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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...
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Whether it’s the recent Ebola crisis in Africa or the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and war in Ukraine, the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent (IFRC) is there,...
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The United States entered World War II ill-prepared. This was typical—to avoid preparing for war until it occurred. At that point, herculean efforts were exerted, industry...
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American literature
When someone says the name “Allen Ginsberg”, any number of things immediately come to mind. Ginsberg was a celebrated US poet, and his work “Howl” is world famous. But...
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US History
Several boys are standing at attention in the middle of the street during a parade in Kansas City, Missouri, May 18, 1918. Courtesy of the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. On...
Read MoreWhat is common in the production of an earring from broken porcelain cups and plates, an evening dress form curtains, a handbag from the cassettes of audio tapes, a lampshade out of discarded Coca Cola...
Institutional investors have become some of the most influential actors in modern capitalism. They decide where pension savings are invested, which companies receive capital, and increasingly shape corporate...
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 changes on land. Cities...
As my book neared completion, I thought, ‘how great would it be to organize a book launch, something small?” I’m the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, featuring 14 contributors...
Debates about the effectiveness of social interventions often begin with a deceptively simple question: ‘does it work?’ Yet this question obscures the deeper epistemic challenges at stake. Social...
Although there is no credible evidence that the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election were illegitimate, about one-third of Americans (as of 2024) continued to believe that the election was stolen....
Buying furniture from IKEA often feels like a metaphor for European integration. The pieces arrive separately, the instructions are never quite as straightforward as they seem, and assembling the final...
Just two years ago, many political elites and policy experts in the United States and other Western countries concluded that the Chinese model of development had failed as China’s economic growth...
In the last decade of his life, my paternal grandfather suffered from undiagnosed vascular dementia. During those years, we saw sudden changes in his speech, mood, personality and behaviour, ranging from...
Human-built spacecraft have visited every single planet in our solar system, as well as several comets and asteroids. We have landed robotic spacecraft not only on Venus and Mars but also on Titan, the...
If students have already passed mathematics at school, why do so many still experience mathematics anxiety at university? For a significant number of learners, mathematics anxiety does not disappear with...
“There may be a causality. Our very strength invites challenge. Challenge incites conflict. And conflict breeds catastrophe.” -Vision, in Captain America: Civil War Who your friends are shapes...
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