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...
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...
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...
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:...
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’...
Oya Dursun-Özkanca, author of 'Turkey–West Relations," out now, on the recent NATO Summit.
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
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,...
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...
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...
What can musical benefits tell us about the ecology of performance in eighteenth-century Britain? Why did musical benefits become such an integral part of a performer’s work in the eighteenth century?...
People who love poetry are not likely to love these sorts of thing: ˌɪntərˈnæʃənəl fəˈnɛtɪk ˈælfəbɪt VP -> t (M) (have + prf) (be + prg) V *h2ner-seerg ...