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Yearly Archives: 2025

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  • 7 Oct 2025
    André Borges, Ryan Lloyd, Gabriel Vommaro

    The Recasting of the Latin American Right: Polarization and Conservative Reactions

    The past ten years have been surprising, to say the least, for observers of the Latin American right. There was a time where the left was the star of the show in the region; in the 2000s and 2010s, leaders of the “Pink Tide,” such as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, and Michelle […]

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  • 6 Oct 2025
    David Coogan

    The Story of Mass Incarceration

    This book tells the story of mass incarceration through the eyes of the writers who lived through it. Long before Michelle Alexander characterized mass incarceration as the new Jim Crow in America, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was in jail protesting Jim Crow in America. King did not live long enough to see the dramatic […]

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  • 2 Oct 2025
    Kunihiko Kaneko

    Universal Biology

    What is life, or are there universal properties of living systems? More than 80 years ago, Schrödinger published his seminal monograph What is Life? in which he predicted the nature of DNA as an information-carrying molecule and discussed the significance of the non-equilibrium nature of biological systems. This book was a physicist’s attempt to elucidate […]

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  • 1 Oct 2025
    Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, William Van Caenegem, Anthea Gerrard, Radim Polčák, Alain Strowel, Andreas Wiebe

    Are beer and law connected? Of course!   

    When you mix prized home-crafted beer brewed by a professor of law with long-suffering colleagues prepared to regularly be used as a tasting panel for new types of beer, you may get a lot of creative ideas and may even end up with a book entitled ‘Beer Law’.  This book, Beer Law, is believed to […]

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  • 30 Sep 2025
    Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Sarah Mead

    Distilling the Complexities and Rapid Evolution of Climate Change Litigation

    In response to insufficient climate action from the legislative and executive branches of government, there has been a marked rise in litigation as a key means of ensuring accountability and advancing climate responses. With more than 2,500 climate-related cases filed globally to date, this area of law is experiencing rapid growth across continents and jurisdictions, […]

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  • 30 Sep 2025
    Stephanie Hawkins

    Our Plastic Brains & Ezra Pound’s Dangerous Conversion

    “Any judgement of MUSSOLINI will be in a measure an act of faith, it will depend on what you believe the man means, what you believe that he wants to accomplish.” — Ezra Pound, Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935). Poet Ezra Pound was a champion of the modernist literary movement, known for its clean, spare imagery […]

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  • 30 Sep 2025
    Douglas Moggach

    Leibniz Beyond Mathematics: Founding the Political Theory of German Idealism

    G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716) is renowned for his groundbreaking work in mathematics, but among his many accomplishments he was also a mining engineer, an inventor, and a pioneer of historical linguistics. His innovations as a political theorist are less widely recognised, but are of great historical significance. His work establishes the basic concepts of subsequent German political […]

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  • 30 Sep 2025
    Mario Del Pero

    In the Shadow of the Vatican

    “We will have to undertake one of the most difficult tasks facing the Church in our day,” wrote Cline Paden, the young pastor of the non-denominational, evangelical Church of Christ in Brownfield, Texas, before departing for Italy in late 1948. “That of replanting New Testament Christianity in a land where it has not existed for […]

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