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In July 2023, President Ruto stood in a marquee in Kilifi County and proclaimed that the Pemba people officially constituted an ethnic community of Kenya. The crowd was elated. Recognition as an ethnic...
In March 1979, the government of dictator General Jorge Rafael Videla, submitted a law proposal to overhaul Argentina’s revenue-sharing regime. Following the rules of this regime, the bill was duly...
In 1915, Robert Chenault Givler published the results of his PhD thesis, which he had undertaken at the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The work was entitled ‘The Psycho-physiological Effect of the...
What the viral TikTok “how often do you think about the Roman empire” did not ask was what people imagine when they think of the Roman world. When I ask my first-year students to jot down three instant...
When Lucy Walker and I began work on Elizabeth Maconchy in Context, we were motivated by a simple conviction: Maconchy’s music and career demand a fuller account than she has usually been granted. She...
In the past several years we have witnessed a rapid and unsettling shift from the “post-racial” aspirations of the Obama era and the global outcry of the Black Lives Matter movement after the murder...
I’ve written about Wollstonecraft a lot, in the last fifteen years: books, articles, edited volumes. I started writing about her the minute I found out about her. And I found out about her because a...
As a pre-teen, I was fascinated with how cosmological and biological evolution led to humanity. Every new book checked out from the library led me to rewrite increasingly long, detailed lists of every...
The question of why there is something rather than nothing is supposed to be one of those “big” timeless topics in philosophy. And yet surprisingly few full-length books are published on the topic....
For several decades ‘failed‘ or ‘fragile’ states and their ‘collapse’ have concerned – if not obsessed – governments, intergovernmental organizations, internationally active NGOs,...
Many people these days talk about vulnerability: children, the elderly, and those who are poor are all described as vulnerable. During the pandemic, protecting the vulnerable became the guiding...
American politics is characterized by extreme partisanship and government stalemate. The two dominant political parties marshal reliably partisan interest groups with the objective of controlling both...
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