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Yearly Archives: 2026

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  • 23 Jan 2026
    Kent Roach

    American Exceptionalism, Comparative Miscarriages of Justice and JJ Valazquez

    Jon-Adrian (JJ) Velazquez has recently sued New York City and its police for $100 million stemming from his wrongful murder conviction. Valazquez is best known for his role in the Oscar nominated film Sing Sing depicting how he and other prisoners had formed a theatre group in the maximum security prison where he was imprisoned […]

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  • 21 Jan 2026
    Abena Takyiwaa Asamoah-Okyere

    From Crisis to Action: Q&A reflections from Abena Takyiwaa Asamoah-Okyere

    1. What makes the book particularly timely and urgent in today’s global climate conversation? Why is now a critical moment to publish this book? This book re-emphasises the fact that the climate crisis is not only a future threat but also a daily reality for many communities across the world. In recent years, I have […]

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  • 20 Jan 2026
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    Matteo Gatti

    Corporations as Political and Governing Actors in the Current Era

    For much of the past decade, corporations occupied a very visible place in public life. They spoke after Charlottesville and January 6, opposed the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, intervened in immigration and voting debates, and redesigned internal policies—from reproductive healthcare to gun sales—in response to political change. In the process, the boundary between economic […]

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  • 16 Jan 2026
    Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Marina Zaloznaya, Marco Garrido

    Seeing Corruption in Context: From Empire to Global Governance

    Corruption is often treated as an obvious problem with an obvious explanation. Public officials, driven by self-interest, abuse their positions; to stop this behavior, we need better incentives, stricter enforcement, and stronger institutions. This way of thinking has shaped decades of research and policy, producing global rankings, reform toolkits, and a vast anti-corruption industry worth […]

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  • 14 Jan 2026
    Andrew Johnstone

    The Invisible Hand of Public Relations

    In 2019, Paul Manafort was sentenced to 73 months in jail for failing to register as with the United States Justice Department an agent of pro-Russian Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych. The story became headline news, given Manafort’s role in Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, and the subsequent investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into potential […]

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  • 14 Jan 2026
    Sarah Coogan

    What Is Nostalgi Good For?: Choosing a Homeland in the British and Irish Modernist Epic

    Nostalgia has become a defining emotion of twenty-first-century Western culture. From endless film franchise reboots, to the Eras Tour, to the 1980s world of Stranger Things, our media seems perpetually transfixed by the past. Nostalgia—the bittersweet yearning for an absent home—has a remarkable power to enchant us, for good or ill. It can, in the […]

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  • 14 Jan 2026
    Kent Lehnhof

    Shakespeare and the Vibrating Throat of Flesh

    A lot of ethical programs are predicated on ideas of sameness and reciprocity. These programs urge us to imagine other people as similar to ourselves and to treat them accordingly. This is the essence of the biblical teaching to ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself’ and is the gist of the so-called Golden Rule: ‘Do unto […]

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  • 14 Jan 2026
    Richard Flower

    The Early History of Heresy

    What makes someone a heretic? In the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, heresy is ‘the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith’.[1] It is about people within the community being judged to have deviated from a core […]

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