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Outside my window, I can hear a bird – a tiny singing creature that raises larger profound and even now unanswered questions: why do birds sing? And what about our own arts of human music, speech and poetry? Where do they come from and what are they for? What are the origins of this love […]
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Our knowledge of Shakespeare in English-speaking countries has been shaped mostly by classroom instruction and to a much lesser extent by a few breakthrough films and live theater performances. His resulting reputation has remained stable for the last two hundred years, the writer acknowledged as the great English national poet and eminent darling of elite […]
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The relative robustness and fragility of political orders is a central concern of scholars and political elites alike. Our edited volume is the first to address the assessments of robustness and fragility made by scholars and political actors. It includes eight essays that examine order in different countries, the European Union, and international society. Our […]
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I set out to write a book on Freud’s enduring legacy on religion and ended up writing one on the founding years of psychoanalytic journals. I recall this transition as marked by the dawning awareness that my own writing and research processes were often shaped by what felt like utterly irrelevant but highly consequential considerations of publication.
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Keith Frayn, author of Understanding Human Metabolism address some of the major misconceptions about human metabolism.
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‘Detail of the manipulation of the scalpel in order to make incisions’ from J. M. Bourgery and N. H. Jacob, Atlas d’anatomie humaine et de chirurgie (1831-54), vol. 1, plate 15. Courtesy of Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark’.
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A love letter to clichés Why did we write a monograph on clichés? On clichés, for heaven’s sake! Doesn’t everyone avoid them like the plague? Rolling their eyes whenever anyone runs one up the flagpole? Vowing to literally avoid them going forward? Not exactly. Clichés: these apparently hackneyed, over-used, tired, and often much maligned excuses […]
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Authoritarian government seems to be a rising force. Over 40 countries are presently autocratic with around 55% of the world’s population living under some form of authoritarian regime. At the same time, even in stable democracies, many citizens feel discontent with their political arrangements, especially young people. For example, in the UK, 61% of 18-34s […]
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