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Neil Murphy
In the summer of 1544, Henry VIII invaded France with 36,000 soldiers – the largest army sent overseas by an English ruler until the reign of William III (1689-1702) – and captured the town of Boulogne and tens of thousands of acres of prime agricultural land in what was the greatest expansion of English territory […]
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George Lawson
There are two main ways of approaching the study of revolution in the contemporary world – and they are both wrong. On the one hand, revolutions are everywhere: on the streets of Kobane, Caracas, and Khartoum; in the rhetoric of groups like Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter; and in the potential of new technologies […]
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J. L. Schellenberg
Gather everything that we humans, religious and nonreligious, have ever done to satisfy ourselves about transcendent things under this label: the religion project. Then ask yourself whether the effort has reached maturity. In Religion After Science, I argue that the correct answer is No. The religion project is instead hugely underdeveloped. Take what religious practices […]
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Daniel Woolf
In this post, Professor Daniel Woolf, author of A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present cuts to the core of the debates around the internet and its pros and cons as a tool for historical research, teaching and public awareness of the past. Can we limit the potential spread of misinformation […]
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Byron E. Shafer, Regina L. Wagner
Debates over party structure and party organization have been long-running throughout American political history. Starting with Andrew Jackson and his reforms of the party system, later joined by the Progressive movement and its battle against machine politics, there has been a persistent struggle, a war if you want, over party organization and the associated leverage […]
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Theo Gerkema
In this memorable photograph (courtesy of NASA), we see astronaut Buzz Aldrin holding in his right hand a sophisticated mirror: the Laser Ranging Retro-Reflector (LR3). This mirror has now been standing on the Moon for 50 years. By sending a laser beam from the Earth to the mirror, and measuring the time it takes […]
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Paul McKechnie
When Attalus III died, Aristonicus seized the throne and called himself Eumenes III. Slow to claim their rights under Attalus’ will, the Romans moved in, years later, and―at the second try―defeated Aristonicus. They took the parts of the Attalid kingdom they liked, and ignored the rest. In the neglected back-blocks of Asia over the following […]
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Paul Crosthwaite
In a much-discussed recent article for Critical Inquiry, Michael W. Clune identifies contemporary literary culture’s most pressing challenge: that of the market. The dominant ideology of the past four decades – neoliberalism – denies “the existence of any value that can’t be registered by the market,” and the literary field has been as subject to […]
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Neil Murphy
In the summer of 1544, Henry VIII invaded France with 36,000 soldiers – the largest army sent overseas by an English ruler until the reign of William III (1689-1702) – and captured the town of Boulogne and tens of thousands of acres of prime agricultural land in what was the greatest expansion of English territory […]
Read More
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George Lawson
There are two main ways of approaching the study of revolution in the contemporary world – and they are both wrong. On the one hand, revolutions are everywhere: on the streets of Kobane, Caracas, and Khartoum; in the rhetoric of groups like Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter; and in the potential of new technologies […]
Read More
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J. L. Schellenberg
Gather everything that we humans, religious and nonreligious, have ever done to satisfy ourselves about transcendent things under this label: the religion project. Then ask yourself whether the effort has reached maturity. In Religion After Science, I argue that the correct answer is No. The religion project is instead hugely underdeveloped. Take what religious practices […]
Read More
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Daniel Woolf
In this post, Professor Daniel Woolf, author of A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present cuts to the core of the debates around the internet and its pros and cons as a tool for historical research, teaching and public awareness of the past. Can we limit the potential spread of misinformation […]
Read More
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Byron E. Shafer, Regina L. Wagner
Debates over party structure and party organization have been long-running throughout American political history. Starting with Andrew Jackson and his reforms of the party system, later joined by the Progressive movement and its battle against machine politics, there has been a persistent struggle, a war if you want, over party organization and the associated leverage […]
Read More
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Theo Gerkema
In this memorable photograph (courtesy of NASA), we see astronaut Buzz Aldrin holding in his right hand a sophisticated mirror: the Laser Ranging Retro-Reflector (LR3). This mirror has now been standing on the Moon for 50 years. By sending a laser beam from the Earth to the mirror, and measuring the time it takes […]
Read More
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Paul McKechnie
When Attalus III died, Aristonicus seized the throne and called himself Eumenes III. Slow to claim their rights under Attalus’ will, the Romans moved in, years later, and―at the second try―defeated Aristonicus. They took the parts of the Attalid kingdom they liked, and ignored the rest. In the neglected back-blocks of Asia over the following […]
Read More
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Paul Crosthwaite
In a much-discussed recent article for Critical Inquiry, Michael W. Clune identifies contemporary literary culture’s most pressing challenge: that of the market. The dominant ideology of the past four decades – neoliberalism – denies “the existence of any value that can’t be registered by the market,” and the literary field has been as subject to […]
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