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John Stolz, Daniel Bain, Michael Griffin
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused a global energy crisis. The United States and the European Union have instituted partial embargos on Russian oil and gas, while Russia has responded by cutting off gas to Poland and Bulgaria.
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Emily Joan Ward
The succession of a child king was a relatively common occurrence across medieval Europe, but kingship is still usually studied from an adult-focused perspective which sees boy rulers as paradoxes or unimportant pawns. Royal Childhood and Child Kingship seeks to uncouple conceptions of rulership between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries from the automatic and exclusive […]
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Xiaobo Zhai, Philip Schofield
There is no doubt that liberal democracy as being currently practiced in the west, despite serious problems, is superior beyond comparison to many authoritarian or totalitarian autocracies. The latter can indeed produce impressive results which the former may not be able to achieve, but the wonders are, more often than not, sinister, namely sacrificing universal […]
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Stewart King, Alistair Rolls, Jesper Gulddal
At the end of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Auguste Dupin, the prototype of the analytical detective, offers a disparaging verdict on the Parisian Prefect of Police. The Prefect has “impaired his vision by holding the object too close. He might see, perhaps, one or two points with unusual clearness, […]
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Shaomin Li
Perhaps the biggest challenge to dictatorships is the danger and uncertainty associated with a leadership transition. No one—including the ruler—knows the real rules of transition, such as how the next ruler is chosen and how the incumbent should exit. All these are determined secretly based on brutal power struggles. This is why, as Xi Jinping’s […]
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Keith Frayn
Keith Frayn, author of Understanding Human Metabolism address some of the major misconceptions about human metabolism.
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Susan R. Grayzel
We are living in a global age of masks. The face coverings that many of us have worn since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic range from medical-grade PPE to handsewn cloth to expensive designer-branded fabric. Masks went from being hard to find in the spring of 2020 to nearly ubiquitous two years later. Some […]
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Hernán Flom
Forty years after the end of authoritarianism, many Latin American democracies exhibit high levels of state violence, primarily attributable to the agency most directly responsible for preserving the state’s monopoly of legitimate coercion: the police. Just last week, military police officers killed at least 18 people in a raid on a favela (shantytown) in Rio […]
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John Stolz, Daniel Bain, Michael Griffin
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused a global energy crisis. The United States and the European Union have instituted partial embargos on Russian oil and gas, while Russia has responded by cutting off gas to Poland and Bulgaria.
Read More
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Emily Joan Ward
The succession of a child king was a relatively common occurrence across medieval Europe, but kingship is still usually studied from an adult-focused perspective which sees boy rulers as paradoxes or unimportant pawns. Royal Childhood and Child Kingship seeks to uncouple conceptions of rulership between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries from the automatic and exclusive […]
Read More
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Xiaobo Zhai, Philip Schofield
There is no doubt that liberal democracy as being currently practiced in the west, despite serious problems, is superior beyond comparison to many authoritarian or totalitarian autocracies. The latter can indeed produce impressive results which the former may not be able to achieve, but the wonders are, more often than not, sinister, namely sacrificing universal […]
Read More
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Stewart King, Alistair Rolls, Jesper Gulddal
At the end of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Auguste Dupin, the prototype of the analytical detective, offers a disparaging verdict on the Parisian Prefect of Police. The Prefect has “impaired his vision by holding the object too close. He might see, perhaps, one or two points with unusual clearness, […]
Read More
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Shaomin Li
Perhaps the biggest challenge to dictatorships is the danger and uncertainty associated with a leadership transition. No one—including the ruler—knows the real rules of transition, such as how the next ruler is chosen and how the incumbent should exit. All these are determined secretly based on brutal power struggles. This is why, as Xi Jinping’s […]
Read More
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Keith Frayn
Keith Frayn, author of Understanding Human Metabolism address some of the major misconceptions about human metabolism.
Read More
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Susan R. Grayzel
We are living in a global age of masks. The face coverings that many of us have worn since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic range from medical-grade PPE to handsewn cloth to expensive designer-branded fabric. Masks went from being hard to find in the spring of 2020 to nearly ubiquitous two years later. Some […]
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Hernán Flom
Forty years after the end of authoritarianism, many Latin American democracies exhibit high levels of state violence, primarily attributable to the agency most directly responsible for preserving the state’s monopoly of legitimate coercion: the police. Just last week, military police officers killed at least 18 people in a raid on a favela (shantytown) in Rio […]
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