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Yearly Archives: 2026

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  • 3 Sep 2026
    Martin Fotta, Ann Ostendorf

    Why isn’t Romani History Part of the Atlantic World?

    When Maria de la Concepción boarded the ship out of Lisbon bound for Brazil, she never could have anticipated her eventual challenges. After providing an enslaved woman in Mexico with a love potion, Concepción was brought before the inquisition on sorcery charges in 1668. Two hundred and fifty years later, the extended Estevanovich family faced […]

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  • 27 Aug 2026
    Mack P. Holt

    Why do people kill for their religion?

    When Michel de Montaigne asked his famous question, “What do I know? (Qui sçay-je?)” in the longest of his essays, “An Apology for Raymond Sebond,” what he was asking was whether he could know God’s will with certainty, especially as it applied to the argument made by some Protestant and Catholic polemicists and even some […]

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  • 25 Aug 2026
    Cover of Out Artificial Future
    David Atkinson

    Our Artificial Future: An Introduction

    Few things stir emotions and financial markets quite like artificial intelligence, yet too few people understand how it’s made, how it’s measured, how it intersects with the law, and what its societal implications may be. The most well-known issues, such as misinformation, hallucinations, “nudify” apps, and the like, are the tip of the iceberg. I […]

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  • 18 Aug 2026
    Cover of Taming the Careerists
    Minju Kim

    Should Bureaucrats Be Easier to Fire?

    Presidents have long sought to shape the federal bureaucracy. But few have challenged it as aggressively as Donald Trump. Throughout his political career, Trump has argued that unelected bureaucrats—the so-called “deep state”—exercise too much influence over government policy. In his March 4, 2025 address to Congress, he declared, “The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are […]

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  • 13 Aug 2026
    Mila Daskalova

    The Victorian Asylum as a Publishing House

    Why would a psychiatric institution publish a periodical in the nineteenth century? This is the question I asked myself ten years ago, when I read the following sentence on the website of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital: ‘A printing press was installed, and a magazine, the Morningside Mirror, was produced.’ I soon found out that the […]

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  • 12 Aug 2026
    Assaf Likhovski

    The Forgotten Legal Scholars of Colonial India and Mandatory Palestine

    Three decades ago, I came across an old report on the state of legal education in the colonies of the British Empire. I learned from the report that there were very few law schools in most of the empire. However, colonial India had a highly developed system of legal education. In fact, there were more […]

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  • 10 Aug 2026
    Elisa Prosperetti

    Schooling and West African Freedom

    I didn’t set out to write a book about freedom, or about the Black Atlantic. I thought I was writing a history of education in postcolonial West Africa. But the longer I spent in the archives in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, the more one puzzle came to dominate my research: why did schools matter so […]

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  • 10 Aug 2026
    Rik Van Nieuwenhove

    NEW BOOK: Providence, Evil and Salvation: A Thomist Perspective

    This new book, Providence, Evil and Salvation – a Thomist Perspective attempts to address some questions central to the Christian faith: How can we square the belief in God with the existence of evil? What is ‘sin’?  What, if anything, could the claim that God ‘saves’ the world in Christ possibly mean? How do we […]

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