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Turkey has gone through radical changes since the year 1980, which was marked by a repressive military coup. Rising from the ashes of military authoritarianism in 1983, Turks sought to gradually democratize...
One of the reasons people like science and engineering is because of the joy of discovering things about the world around us. The more scientifically inclined are curious about nature and what surrounds...
After the clamour of the centenary of the ending of the First World War, how are we best to remember those who died in it? This was the question some were asking at the very first anniversary of the Armistice,...
Alejandro Molina Lara, Gloria García, and Ana Alvarenga, the key protagonists in Solidarity Under Siege, all emigrated to North America. During the 1980s, Salvadoran death squads drove them to El Norte....
No past event gives us a perfect guide to understand current affairs. Nevertheless, we could do worse than use our shared past to help us think through the remarkable political changes Britain has experienced...
International children’s rights law, primarily the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was adopted 30 years ago on 20 November 1989, dedicates much attention to facilitating the ability of...
While working on a book on the religious influences on Modern Art (Modern Art and the Life of a Culture [2016] co-author, Jonathan Anderson), I was struck by the widening scope of motifs sparking aesthetic...
Increasingly, Christian pacifists are recognizing the need to attend to the violence of climate change. Thanks to books like Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor and Kevin...
Context matters. Probably no historian can write a shorter sentence that defends our craft. This is true whether we speak in terms of politics, or about literature, or the law, or even the hard sciences. ...
Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities went about deciding to get things done. The Athenians in the fourth century BC distinguished...
TMI (“too much information”), TLDR (“too long; didn’t read”), and DNC (“does not compute”). These acronyms offer painful reminders of our contemporary relationship with information. ...
To most people, life in prison is a mystery. In a new study, we examine many aspects of prison life, with a special focus on the role of gangs. We interviewed 802 inmates in prison in Texas, half of whom...
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