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Arthur Jan Keefer
Scholars of the ancient world are, I think, often satisfied with their antique interests. They study texts and inscriptions, languages, peoples, and entire civilizations, many of which are otherwise extinct and all of which existed in ages past, and they do so with the feeling that such exploration is worthwhile. Who needs “application” when we […]
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Michael Hunter
Tinkler Ducket was expelled from the University of Cambridge in March 1739, being found guilty of ‘the very serious crime of atheism’. The young don’s case had been the subject of a hearing before the Vice-Chancellor’s court of the university, at which Ducket’s courageous appeal to freedom of thought, leading if necessary to atheist conclusions, […]
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Elias Buchetmann
The cover of Hegel and the Representative Constitution features Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s 1813 painting The Morning because it reflects the mood in contemporary ‘Germany’, symbolising the kind of new beginning longed for in the wars against Napoleon. While Renaissance costumes and antique relics in the foreground pay homage to tradition and the past, the breaking […]
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Matthias Mahlmann
1. Challenges ahead Human rights are contested. This comes as no surprise because they always have been. In recent years, however, new forms of criticism have emerged that merit close attention because of at least four reasons: First, these (often radical) criticisms may be justified and thus provide insights and a better guide to action […]
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Elijah Doro
In March and April 2023, Al Jazeera’s investigative unit released a documentary series on gold smuggling, money laundering, corruption, and organised crime in Zimbabwe. The documentary implicated the Zimbabwean President, his family, the central bank, state diplomatic officials, customs officials and a ring of notorious smugglers and fraudsters in a multibillion-dollar transnational money laundering and […]
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Robert Kugelmann
In a Word Association Test, someone is given a series of words as prompts and asked to reply with any word that pops into their head at the mention of each prompt. So here is a one-item Word Association Test. Your one and only prompt is: “soul.” … What comes to mind? … Probably the […]
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Hans-Lukas Kieser
The Conference of Lausanne in 1922-23 offers invaluable insights into the state of the world, Europe, and the Middle East at a crossroads after World War I. This Near East Peace Conference resulted in the Lausanne Treaty, the international “birth certificate” of the Republic of Turkey, founded in October 1923. The Treaty of Lausanne belatedly […]
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Stephen J Toope
Undocumented migrants die in deserts, in winter snowdrifts and in turbulent seas. Authoritarian populist leaders jail political opponents, attack the judicial branch of government, and silence independent media. Increasing economic inequality sends more and more people to food banks while a privileged few buy eye-wateringly expensive properties in the English countryside, or in Manhattan, Sydney […]
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Arthur Jan Keefer
Scholars of the ancient world are, I think, often satisfied with their antique interests. They study texts and inscriptions, languages, peoples, and entire civilizations, many of which are otherwise extinct and all of which existed in ages past, and they do so with the feeling that such exploration is worthwhile. Who needs “application” when we […]
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Michael Hunter
Tinkler Ducket was expelled from the University of Cambridge in March 1739, being found guilty of ‘the very serious crime of atheism’. The young don’s case had been the subject of a hearing before the Vice-Chancellor’s court of the university, at which Ducket’s courageous appeal to freedom of thought, leading if necessary to atheist conclusions, […]
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Elias Buchetmann
The cover of Hegel and the Representative Constitution features Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s 1813 painting The Morning because it reflects the mood in contemporary ‘Germany’, symbolising the kind of new beginning longed for in the wars against Napoleon. While Renaissance costumes and antique relics in the foreground pay homage to tradition and the past, the breaking […]
Read More
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Matthias Mahlmann
1. Challenges ahead Human rights are contested. This comes as no surprise because they always have been. In recent years, however, new forms of criticism have emerged that merit close attention because of at least four reasons: First, these (often radical) criticisms may be justified and thus provide insights and a better guide to action […]
Read More
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Elijah Doro
In March and April 2023, Al Jazeera’s investigative unit released a documentary series on gold smuggling, money laundering, corruption, and organised crime in Zimbabwe. The documentary implicated the Zimbabwean President, his family, the central bank, state diplomatic officials, customs officials and a ring of notorious smugglers and fraudsters in a multibillion-dollar transnational money laundering and […]
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Robert Kugelmann
In a Word Association Test, someone is given a series of words as prompts and asked to reply with any word that pops into their head at the mention of each prompt. So here is a one-item Word Association Test. Your one and only prompt is: “soul.” … What comes to mind? … Probably the […]
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Hans-Lukas Kieser
The Conference of Lausanne in 1922-23 offers invaluable insights into the state of the world, Europe, and the Middle East at a crossroads after World War I. This Near East Peace Conference resulted in the Lausanne Treaty, the international “birth certificate” of the Republic of Turkey, founded in October 1923. The Treaty of Lausanne belatedly […]
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Stephen J Toope
Undocumented migrants die in deserts, in winter snowdrifts and in turbulent seas. Authoritarian populist leaders jail political opponents, attack the judicial branch of government, and silence independent media. Increasing economic inequality sends more and more people to food banks while a privileged few buy eye-wateringly expensive properties in the English countryside, or in Manhattan, Sydney […]
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