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Investing one fifth of the global arms budgets in a new world food system will end hunger everywhere – but also greatly increase prospects for world peace. “At present humanity invests around...
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana is available now. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify. Read More ?
In the summer of 2019, the city of Hong Kong erupted in a sustained, large-scale protest movement that has continued unabated to this day. Sparked by a deeply unpopular extradition bill that would have...
Capitalism is in crisis. The consensus among politicians, citizens, and even executives themselves is that business just isn’t working for ordinary people. It serves to enrich the elites – fat-cat...
Voter turnout among young Americans has been dismal since 18-year-olds earned the right to vote with the passage of the 26th amendment in 1971. Even in 2018—a high water mark for youth voting—a full...
In October 2019, Turkey launched operation “Peace Spring” in north-east Syria. The operation aimed at driving the Kurdish YPG out of the area to create a twenty mile-wide “safe zone” to resettle...
Irish Literature in Transition is a new series that tracks the the evolution of Irish writing from 1700 to the present, and I’m the editor of volume 5, which covers the four decades between 1940 and...
“Just open the door and let the women out!” So said to me a law professor at Kabul University, Afghanistan in 2006. She was responding to Taliban’s formulaic and age-old patriarchal justification...
Dr Lydia Bracken, University of Limerick, Ireland Although the sexual family structure consisting of one heterosexual mother and one heterosexual father living with their genetically related offspring...
In Williams’ Gang, Jeff Forret explores a Washington, DC, slave trader’s legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans. Forret joins Cambridge University Press Senior Editor Cecelia Cancellaro to discuss the three-decade-long courtroom drama, the parallels between the slave trade and the modern-day prison-industrial complex, and more.
“Photonics” – try asking Google what this is and you’ll find a variety of answers, some more enlightening (pardon the almost inevitable pun…) than others. But what is photonics? Why is it...
Thomas Hobbes was old enough to have been John Locke’s grandfather, but thanks to his extreme longevity, the two great Anglo-phone philosophers were alive as contemporaries for nearly five decades. For...
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