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Nora Freeman Engstrom, David Freeman Engstrom
For more than a century, the legal profession in the United States has tightly controlled the delivery of legal services. Lawyers enjoy a monopoly: only licensed attorneys can provide legal advice, represent clients in court, and prepare most legal documents for others. This exclusive domain has been zealously guarded through sweeping unauthorised practice of law […]
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Bill Beck
No text attracted as much critical attention in Greek antiquity as the Iliad. Homer’s monumental epic was the cornerstone of primary education in ancient Greece, and it remained at the forefront of philological studies for more than a millennium, serving as both a proving ground and a playground for some of the greatest scholars of […]
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Carl-Henrik Bjerström, Enrico Acciai, Morten Heiberg
In a 1954 poem called ‘Spain in America’ (España en América), the Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara likened Castillo Armas’s coup in Guatemala to General Franco’s onslaught against the Spanish Republic two decades earlier. “Do you remember, Guatemala, those July days in the year of 1936? Of course you do.” Spain and Guatemala had both been democracies, […]
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Sudesh Mishra, Caitlin Vandertop
Recent U.S. tariff policies have made mundane commodities remarkably visible, with almost every week bringing news about the logistics of importing or exporting essential items, from hamburgers to cement. The results are sometimes bizarre: a recent House hearing saw the U.S. commerce secretary insist that ‘we cannot build bananas in America’, in response to a […]
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Deepa Das Acevedo
In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the New York Times documented over 145 instances of workers being disciplined or terminated for comments related to Kirk. Many of those workers were professors—and a surprising number were tenured professors. In other words, academia’s most elite workers were being punished or fired alongside “health care workers, lawyers […]
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Jennifer Yip
As a historian of war, I’ve always been curious about how wars have been fought–not just on the impersonal levels of strategy and operations, but also in the much more intimate terms of the everyday. I am especially interested in that most primal and immediate of human concerns: what and how did soldiers eat? Where […]
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Betto van Waarden
‘The powerful ruler is today unable to steer the press in his directions simply through his will. Words of command echo as empty calls in the empire of typesetting and rotation machines,’ observed the Fränkischer Kurier on 14 July 1906. When media celebrities-turned-politicians Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky bring us live reality TV from the […]
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Joris Geldhof
Particularly in Western countries, where the so-called secularization supposedly hit harder than in other parts of the world, many people do not really engage with Christian liturgy. But that does not mean that they do not have opinions about it, to the contrary. The statements made are mostly influenced by commonly shared patterns of thought, […]
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Nora Freeman Engstrom, David Freeman Engstrom
For more than a century, the legal profession in the United States has tightly controlled the delivery of legal services. Lawyers enjoy a monopoly: only licensed attorneys can provide legal advice, represent clients in court, and prepare most legal documents for others. This exclusive domain has been zealously guarded through sweeping unauthorised practice of law […]
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Bill Beck
No text attracted as much critical attention in Greek antiquity as the Iliad. Homer’s monumental epic was the cornerstone of primary education in ancient Greece, and it remained at the forefront of philological studies for more than a millennium, serving as both a proving ground and a playground for some of the greatest scholars of […]
Read More
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Carl-Henrik Bjerström, Enrico Acciai, Morten Heiberg
In a 1954 poem called ‘Spain in America’ (España en América), the Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara likened Castillo Armas’s coup in Guatemala to General Franco’s onslaught against the Spanish Republic two decades earlier. “Do you remember, Guatemala, those July days in the year of 1936? Of course you do.” Spain and Guatemala had both been democracies, […]
Read More
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Sudesh Mishra, Caitlin Vandertop
Recent U.S. tariff policies have made mundane commodities remarkably visible, with almost every week bringing news about the logistics of importing or exporting essential items, from hamburgers to cement. The results are sometimes bizarre: a recent House hearing saw the U.S. commerce secretary insist that ‘we cannot build bananas in America’, in response to a […]
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Deepa Das Acevedo
In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the New York Times documented over 145 instances of workers being disciplined or terminated for comments related to Kirk. Many of those workers were professors—and a surprising number were tenured professors. In other words, academia’s most elite workers were being punished or fired alongside “health care workers, lawyers […]
Read More
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Jennifer Yip
As a historian of war, I’ve always been curious about how wars have been fought–not just on the impersonal levels of strategy and operations, but also in the much more intimate terms of the everyday. I am especially interested in that most primal and immediate of human concerns: what and how did soldiers eat? Where […]
Read More
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Betto van Waarden
‘The powerful ruler is today unable to steer the press in his directions simply through his will. Words of command echo as empty calls in the empire of typesetting and rotation machines,’ observed the Fränkischer Kurier on 14 July 1906. When media celebrities-turned-politicians Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky bring us live reality TV from the […]
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Joris Geldhof
Particularly in Western countries, where the so-called secularization supposedly hit harder than in other parts of the world, many people do not really engage with Christian liturgy. But that does not mean that they do not have opinions about it, to the contrary. The statements made are mostly influenced by commonly shared patterns of thought, […]
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