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Shakespeare beyond Print

My study of the history of Shakespeare publishing and editing, Shakespeare in Print, first appeared in 2003. In recent years, it has come to feel that the book was in need of significant updating and...

Andrew Murphy | 7 Jun 2021

“It’s the regime, stupid!”

So said former CIA Director R. James Woolsey to the House Armed Services Committee in 1999, channeling what had become a consensus about Iraq in the U.S. foreign policy establishment by the end of the...

Joseph Stieb | 3 Jun 2021

Rethinking Princely Power

What did it mean to be a prince in the Middle Ages? During the Hundred Years’ War (c. 1337–1453), the kingdom of France contained a number of powerful duchies and counties, such as Brittany in the...

Erika Graham-Goering | 3 Jun 2021

35 Ways of Looking at Philip Roth

“Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends,” Philip Roth once famously said of his own work. The enduring appeal of this assertion derives in part from the fact that it so accurately...

Maggie McKinley | 31 May 2021

A History of Canadian Fiction

How did Canadian fiction, essentially a late-nineteenth-century/early-twentieth-century creation, come to be a major avenue of world fiction in little more than one hundred years?      More...

David Staines | 28 May 2021

Interpreting Kuhn

After years of struggling to complete a book on scientific revolutions and the development of scientific knowledge, in 1962, Thomas Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Three years...

K. Brad Wray | 28 May 2021

How do new types of animal originate?

how did the first beak evolve? Conventional evolutionary theory is very good at explaining variations on a theme. Examples include the evolution of dark moths from pale ones, the evolution of big...

Wallace Arthur | 26 May 2021

Let’s Be Afro-Realistic: Muslim-Christian Manifold Relations in Nigeria

‘What’s Wrong with Nigeria?’; ‘Nigeria in Crisis’; ‘Nigeria’s Religious Riots Continue’; ‘Boko Haram: World’s Deadliest Terror Organization’: this is just a random selection of national...

Marloes Janson | 25 May 2021

Money and the Rule of Law

Monetary policy and the Federal Reserve seem boring to most people…until they’re not. And when things get lively, serious economic damage usually follows. There’s a reason the expression “May...

Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, Daniel J. Smith | 25 May 2021

Learning How to Recover in a Post-Pandemic Era

To be convalescent, in the nineteenth century, was to have survived a medical crisis and to be still picking up the pieces. The category of convalescence could be applied to the survival of all kinds...

Hosanna Krienke | 24 May 2021

Q&A: Theory and Applications of Colloidal Suspension Rheology

What inspired this book? Colloidal suspension rheology continues to be among the most active areas of research in the field of soft matter as evidenced from the literature and among the most subscribed...

Norman J. Wagner, Jan Mewis | 22 May 2021