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Myungji Yang
On December 3, 2024, then–President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea stunned the world by declaring martial law out of the blue. In a televised address, he emphasized the inevitability of martial law by identifying the current situation as a state of emergency, in which the opposition Democratic Party—what he described as a “pro–North Korea, […]
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Chihab El Khachab
From The United Arab Republic, 1963 (Cairo: Information Department) When I started researching the Egyptian Ministry of Culture (formerly National Guidance), I wondered why the government would dedicate an entire ministry to something as abstract as ‘culture’. I was familiar with the theoretical debates about the concept of culture in modern-day social science, but it […]
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Kimberly A. Yuracko
In recent years, few issues have been as socially and politically fraught and divisive as the question of whether transgender girls should be permitted to participate in girls’ sports. In the United States, the political left and right have staked out opposite though equally absolutist positions. The left argues that transgender girls are girls and […]
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Gordon McMullan
When we think about prejudice, we think about people. People who are prejudiced against us; people whom we may be prejudiced against (whether we admit it or not). Yet not all prejudice is directed against people. Sometimes it can be directed against an animal. Or a bird. The cormorant is one such bird. It has […]
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Pritish Behuria
Amid all the changes that have taken place since countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America became independent in the 1960s/1970s, a stark reality has persisted: very few of those newly independent countries have ‘caught up’ or achieved structural transformation. This has entrenched a lasting gap in living standards between rich and less industrialised parts […]
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Oluwakemi A. Ayanleye, Erum K. Sattar, Saba Kareemi, Nadia B. Ahmad
The United Nations Climate Conference (COP 31) will convene in Antalya, Turkey. Muslim-majority countries have hosted two recent COPs in Sharm el-Sheikh and Dubai and are now set to host in Antalya. That continuity reflects that the communities bearing the heaviest burden of climate change are disproportionately Muslim, disproportionately in the Global South, and disproportionately […]
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Jonathan P. Lamb
Human beings think, speak, and write in metaphors. Those metaphors change as cultures do; people use them to respond to and reshape the world. Indeed, neuroscientists and literary scholars alike have explored how we build the world with metaphors and other figurative language. The present era is undergoing a massive metaphorical transformation, as computer technology […]
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Richard C. J. Somerville
Each time our small ship met a big wave, a few plates and glasses crashed to the deck. We were in a storm on the North Atlantic Ocean, on a voyage from the United States to Europe. You need not fear the ocean, but you must respect it. If you are careless or just unlucky, […]
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Myungji Yang
On December 3, 2024, then–President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea stunned the world by declaring martial law out of the blue. In a televised address, he emphasized the inevitability of martial law by identifying the current situation as a state of emergency, in which the opposition Democratic Party—what he described as a “pro–North Korea, […]
Read More
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Chihab El Khachab
From The United Arab Republic, 1963 (Cairo: Information Department) When I started researching the Egyptian Ministry of Culture (formerly National Guidance), I wondered why the government would dedicate an entire ministry to something as abstract as ‘culture’. I was familiar with the theoretical debates about the concept of culture in modern-day social science, but it […]
Read More
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Kimberly A. Yuracko
In recent years, few issues have been as socially and politically fraught and divisive as the question of whether transgender girls should be permitted to participate in girls’ sports. In the United States, the political left and right have staked out opposite though equally absolutist positions. The left argues that transgender girls are girls and […]
Read More
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Gordon McMullan
When we think about prejudice, we think about people. People who are prejudiced against us; people whom we may be prejudiced against (whether we admit it or not). Yet not all prejudice is directed against people. Sometimes it can be directed against an animal. Or a bird. The cormorant is one such bird. It has […]
Read More
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Pritish Behuria
Amid all the changes that have taken place since countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America became independent in the 1960s/1970s, a stark reality has persisted: very few of those newly independent countries have ‘caught up’ or achieved structural transformation. This has entrenched a lasting gap in living standards between rich and less industrialised parts […]
Read More
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Oluwakemi A. Ayanleye, Erum K. Sattar, Saba Kareemi, Nadia B. Ahmad
The United Nations Climate Conference (COP 31) will convene in Antalya, Turkey. Muslim-majority countries have hosted two recent COPs in Sharm el-Sheikh and Dubai and are now set to host in Antalya. That continuity reflects that the communities bearing the heaviest burden of climate change are disproportionately Muslim, disproportionately in the Global South, and disproportionately […]
Read More
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Jonathan P. Lamb
Human beings think, speak, and write in metaphors. Those metaphors change as cultures do; people use them to respond to and reshape the world. Indeed, neuroscientists and literary scholars alike have explored how we build the world with metaphors and other figurative language. The present era is undergoing a massive metaphorical transformation, as computer technology […]
Read More
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Richard C. J. Somerville
Each time our small ship met a big wave, a few plates and glasses crashed to the deck. We were in a storm on the North Atlantic Ocean, on a voyage from the United States to Europe. You need not fear the ocean, but you must respect it. If you are careless or just unlucky, […]
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