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Romantic Ireland

Daniel MacDonald, 'Sídhe Gaoithe/ The Fairy Blast' 1842. Oil on canvas. 89 x 115cm. Image used by permission of the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Claire Connolly | 14 Feb 2020

Expanding areas of the applications of active analog filters

  ‘A transducer for separating waves on the basis of the frequencies’ or ‘electric filters’ is an interesting but wide study area on account of their ever-increasing areas of applications. Traditionally,...

14 Feb 2020

The Creativity of Aegean Bronze Age Art

Think for a moment about ancient art. What does it conjure up? You may think of sculpture, like the Nike of Samothrace; or busts of Roman emperors; it may be that the treasures from the Egyptian pyramids...

Carl Knappett | 14 Feb 2020

Bullies and the 2020 Election

I don’t know who will win the 2020 presidential race, but I do know who will lose: the biggest bully on the block since Billy Franklin beat-up Joey Tarnower in the sixth-grade and ran-off with his lunch...

Roderick P. Hart | 13 Feb 2020

Evolution of Goods and Services Tax in India

India introduced a comprehensive multistage value added tax (VAT) system, known as  Goods and Services Tax (GST), on 1 July 2017. Indian GST encompasses various indirect taxes from union and state tax...

13 Feb 2020

The Meaning-Seeking Animal: Re-Enchanting Virtue Ethics

David McPherson, Creighton University Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, but I would add that it often also begins with dissatisfaction. This is true of my new book Virtue and Meaning:...

11 Feb 2020

How US and European ‘democracy promotion’ in Jordan ends up reinforcing authoritarianism

While Jordan is one of the main targets of US and European attempts at ‘democracy promotion’, it also demonstrates a remarkably stable authoritarian system. Existing literature on ‘democracy promotion’...

Benjamin Schuetze | 11 Feb 2020

NATO’s London Summit: Intra-alliance Opposition and Silver Linings

Oya Dursun-Özkanca, author of 'Turkey–West Relations," out now, on the recent NATO Summit.

Oya Dursun-Özkanca | 10 Feb 2020

The Conflict between Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation: How can it be Solved?

Martin Drechsler, author of 'Ecological-Economic Modelling for Biodiversity Conservation', discusses how we can help solve the conflict between agriculture and biodiversity conservation. Photo by 童 彤 on Unsplash

Martin Drechsler | 7 Feb 2020

Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature

It was a decade ago in graduate school when I read Shahla Haeri’s magnificent book, Law of Desire, for the first time. Haeri’s book became the inspiration for a series of papers, conference presentations,...

Claudia Yaghoobi | 7 Feb 2020

Higher Education Admissions Practices

The new year brings with it wishes for health and happiness. But for many secondary school students, the beginning of the year also brings anxiety about completing college applications, apprehension waiting...

Cathy Wendler | 7 Feb 2020

Long Live Beatlemania

The following text is excerpted from chapter 8 of The Beatles in Context (ed. by Kenneth Womack), ‘Beatlemania,’ by Melissa Davis. Beatlemania: biːt (ə) lˈmeɪnɪə/ From Gr (noun) mania...

6 Feb 2020