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Looking in the Mirror of Early Modern Art

What is a painting?  An application of coloured pigments to a flat surface, be it a wall, a canvas, or a panel.  My book poses this question in historical perspective, to ask: what was a Renaissance...

Genevieve Warwick | 7 Feb 2025

Beyond the Invisible Hand: Exploring the Construction of Markets

Markets are everywhere—in our communities, workplaces, and even our personal lives—shaping society in important and often unnoticed ways. For many, markets are viewed as the solution to society’s...

Stefan Schwarzkopf, Susi Geiger, Katy Mason, Neil Pollock, Philip Roscoe, Annmarie Ryan, Pascale Trompette | 6 Feb 2025

Reimagining Prosperity in the EU

We live in the times of profound pessimism about the future. Where have the hope and optimism go? And how is Europe, and its political leaders, trying to create new grounds for optimism? In Europe, the...

Marija Bartl | 6 Feb 2025

“The Pediatric Liver Transplant Journey: A Five-Part Series”

As a transplant surgeon and an advocate for pediatric healthcare education, I’m thrilled to share my latest five-part series of books designed to guide children and their families through the liver...

Dr. Maria Baimas-George | 5 Feb 2025

“Dialysis: An Aquarium Filter for Your Blood”

When I first embarked on writing and illustrating books for children, I had one simple goal: to make complex medical concepts accessible, relatable, and less intimidating for young patients and their...

Dr. Maria Baimas-George | 5 Feb 2025

Why Is There Something and Not Rather Nothing? Hey, Whatever

According to Thomas Aquinas, knowledge of first causes is the most fundamental kind of knowledge.  Since a cause is an explanation – a reason why something is — to say things have no cause...

J. Budziszewski | 5 Feb 2025

The Extraordinary History of World Cities

This is an urban age. The concept of “world cities” and the cross-border networks that animate them inspired a wave of interdisciplinary research. Megaregions like New York, Lagos, Mexico City, and...

Joshua K. Leon | 4 Feb 2025

Bidding farewell to Kant’s ‘murderer at the door’

Kant’s 1797 essay “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity” has done more than any of his other works to scare students off his moral theory. Interpreters have little time for it. They...

Jens Timmermann | 4 Feb 2025

Recovering an ancient scientific culture: The case of the Roman artes

One of the most significant legacies of Greek and Roman antiquity is the vast body of scientific and technical writings which, copied and transmitted across the centuries, has exerted a profound influence...

James L. Zainaldin | 31 Jan 2025

Noah the Environmentalist and the Flood

For the last two thousand years and more, the story of Noah and the flood in the book of Genesis has been thought of as an historical account of what happened around 2,500 BCE, some 1,500 years after...

Philip C Almond | 31 Jan 2025

Brand Ownership in the Cultural Landscape

Branding, personal branding, corporate branding; everyone must brand themselves today in order to be seen and to take part in the continual construction of their identity in the spaces in which they exist...

Miriam J. Johnson | 30 Jan 2025

Shifting Currents: Navigating Energy Transitions Policy for Security and Defence?

We have seen a relatively rapid progress of the energy transition in recent years, with increased adoption of wind and solar power, electrification of heating and transport as well as an amplification...

Paula Kivimaa | 30 Jan 2025