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Yearly Archives: 2016

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  • 18 May 2016
    Allan C. Hutchinson

    How to Surf the Law

    Allan C. Hutchinson, author of Is Killing People Right? (2016) explains why good judges are like good surfers.

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  • 17 May 2016
    Helen Wilcox

    A poem a day by George Herbert: ‘Vertue’

    Vertue This short poem is one of the most perfect lyrics in the English language. In pure and exquisitely simple phrases, it suggests the perfection of the created world – the new day, the bright rose, the fresh spring – yet also reminds us of the inevitably transitory nature of life. All the ‘sweet’ things […]

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  • 17 May 2016
    Ann-Marie Einhaus

    Rethinking the ‘English’ Short Story in Global and Publishing Terms

    Ann-Marie Einhaus explores the question, "What IS the English short story?"

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  • 16 May 2016
    Helen Wilcox

    A poem a day by George Herbert: ‘Prayer (I)’

    To celebrate the publication of George Herbert: 100 Poems, we ask volume editor Helen Wilcox to pick her favourite George Herbert poems and explain why she chose them.

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  • 16 May 2016
    John MacAuslan

    How Does Schumann’s Kreisleriana Work?

    Over the next four weeks, author John MacAuslan, author of Schumann’s Music and E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Fiction, will explore why music is important.   One after another, Schumann wrote great piano works apparently connected to literature –Carnaval, Fantasiestücke, Kreisleriana, Nachtstücke. But how connected? I couldn’t believe the connection was primarily about programmes. Nor primarily about formal […]

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  • 12 May 2016
    Susan Rose-Ackerman, Bonnie J. Palifka

    Fighting institutionalized corruption through sophisticated political-economic reform

    With all eyes on the Anti-Corruption Summit in London this week, Susan Rose-Ackerman and Bonnie J. Palifka, the authors of Corruption and Government, Second Edition, highlight the relevance of their work to two recent scandals: Petrobras and the Panama Papers.

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  • 10 May 2016
    The Psychology of The Digital Age
    John Suler

    The Online Disinhibition Effect, 20 Years Later

    As researchers like Norman Holland, Adam Joinson, and myself noted twenty years ago, people tend to say and do things online that they would not typically say and do in the in-person world. In an article that I first published in The Psychology of Cyberspace, I described six ingredients of this “online disinhibition effect.” More […]

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  • 10 May 2016
    Damian Chalmers

    Crisis and Adjusting to European Diversity

    If European integration is to endure successfully, there will have to be a number of changes. Damian Chalmers explores these.

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