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It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You could say the same about justice. In modern society, laws are written and codified, while justice is perceived and subjective. As often as...
The world established an international tax regime in the 1920s which most countries follow with respect to cross-border transactions. It has had a remarkably successful tenure. There has been, however,...
Four years ago, Americans watched our national language start to shift, with symptoms that included a president who claimed fake news and alternative facts, and extremists who spoke hate-filled worlds...
Physicists routinely use numerical methods to carry out tasks like interpolation, integration, or root-finding in their daily work. To implement such methods in their computer programs, practicing scientists...
When James Stephen, permanent under-secretary, entered the Colonial Office on 1 January 1838, he was confronted by piles of despatches from across the world. Stephen told his sister that he spent every...
The breadth and variety of works that can be gathered together under the heading of ‘the novel in French’ is nothing short of breathtaking. Of course France is a major source for these works, but...
Who gets to interpret scripture? Is God’s speech clear enough for everyone to understand, or does interpreting God’s speech require expertise? Are Muslims required to understand their religion through...
There is no question that COVID-19 has brought tremendous suffering around the globe. We have lost over one million humans to the pandemic. Some who have been infected have long-lasting and devastating...
How should we go about trying to understand the behavior of people and other living organisms? One way is to look for its causes. This is the approach taken by most scientific psychologists and is the...
As I scripted the outline for this collection, the United States held the questionable honor of being the only country in the world to have withdrawn from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, to date the...
Thoreau’s Religion is a book about Henry David Thoreau and environmental justice. But Stanley Cavell put the question well when he asked, in the preface to The Senses of Walden (Viking Press, 1972),...
While there are no timeless arguments in the history of political thought, there may indeed be perennial questions. If anything is recurrent throughout Western thought, it is likely to be the abhorrence...
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