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Yearly Archives: 2025

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  • 18 Nov 2025
    Thomas Gift

    Trump’s Challenges to the Law of War

    In a high-profile address to US generals earlier this week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared, “We don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our war fighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemy.” His words are exactly what US President Donald Trump has been advocating: not just loosening […]

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  • 18 Nov 2025
    Taylor Aucoin

    The Autumnal Experience of Work in Early Modern England

    Autumn is most definitely here: leaves crunch underfoot; the air is crisp and cool; pumpkin and apple spices waft from the coffee shops. But while the season brings many changes, it does not alter work patterns dramatically for most modern people, though teachers might disagree. Of course, things were quite different in the agrarian society […]

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  • 18 Nov 2025
    Melissa J. Ganz

    Exploring Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century

    The law underwent significant developments in eighteenth-century Britain as jurists and legislators adapted older doctrines to fit the needs of an increasingly commercial, industrial, and imperial society. These developments at once shaped and were shaped by the period’s imaginative writing. In an era when disciplinary boundaries had not yet hardened, some men trained for the […]

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  • 18 Nov 2025
    Jonathan Valk

    Ancient Assyrian Identities

    Social groups dominate public discourse. The news, social media, scientific reports, and everyday conversations all refer to groups of every kind: women, conservatives, Muslims, immigrants, Nigerians, lawyers, and a virtually endless list of others. In their own contexts, each of these categories makes sense. We know, roughly, whom each term describes. But when we stop […]

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  • 6 Nov 2025
    Sarah Burton, Jem Poster

    The Prompts You Need to Help You Write the Book You Want to Write

    When we wrote our handbook for fiction writers (The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write, published by CUP in 2022) we excluded a component of our taught courses, the writing exercise – not because we thought it wasn’t important, but because we knew it was. While many creative […]

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  • 31 Oct 2025
    Insight-Driven Problem Solving
    Soroush Saghafian

    Insight-Driven Problem Solving: Analytics Science to Improve the World

    Why Analytics Matters Now More Than Ever In today’s world, data and algorithms are everywhere, but real impact comes not from numbers alone—it comes from how we use them. That belief is at the heart of my new book, Insight-Driven Problem Solving: Analytics Science to Improve the World. The book was born out of years […]

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  • 20 Oct 2025
    Grayscale Photography of People Walking Near Buildings
    Yuval Feldman

    Can Governments Trust Their Citizens? The Paradox of Voluntary Compliance

    Every policymaker knows the dilemma: should governments trust people to do the right thing, or make sure they do it? The safer option has usually been enforcement. Write the rules, monitor behavior, punish violations. Citizens obey because they have to. Yet most regulators also know something they rarely act on: people tend to follow rules […]

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  • 20 Oct 2025
    Eleanor Helms

    Imagination and Thinking Well

    Section 1: What are Thought Experiments For? Thomas Kuhn famously asked how it was possible for thought experiments to lead to new scientific knowledge in the absence of new data. In philosophy, research on thought experiments has mainly followed the trajectory established by Kuhn, focusing on their role in the sciences. Kuhn’s asks what thought experiments […]

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