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One of my favorites children’s books was What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry. Repeatedly, I learned how the Busytown tailors, construction workers, and lumbermill employees lived their daily...
Esperanto, Klingon, Na’vi … these are examples of invented or constructed languages (conlangs for short). Unlike ‘natural’ languages such as English, Swahili, or Navajo, which arise and change...
Reading by her window, “cross-legged, like a Turk,” Jane Eyre transports herself to “Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland.” Anywhere but Gateshead, where her life has...
Making housing affordable is now a top priority for countries and subnational governments around the world. While much of the debate appears to be happening in countries like the United States and United...
Efforts to “globalize” social theory, overturn the limitations of dominant theoretical perspectives, and rethink the canon have been underway for decades in different academic disciplines. We suggest...
On February 24 of 1920, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (you know, the Nazis) issued their first party platform. Their demands are mostly what you would expect—conquering the greater...
The first year of Trump’s second term has been a chaotic one for trade, as for so much else. Before inauguration, the President had already threatened tariffs against Denmark to force a “sale”...
Millions young people across the world grow up every day with some variation of violence affecting their lives. Millions more—sometimes the very same young people—may participate in that violence,...
A map of Leadenhall Street and Houndsditch which includes several parish churches and synagogues. Excerpt from John Rocque’s 1746 map of London, from David Rumsey maps. June 1780 saw some of the...
A new book that reveals the sound-painted secrets of 124 languages. Boom… plop! Woof! Vroom! Sound familiar? Like something out of a comic book, baby talk, or a cartoon? Not quite! These “funny...
Before his death on the battlefields of the First World War, the young philosopher Adolf Reinach was a rising star—prime assistant to Edmund Husserl; mentor and friend to a generation from Max Scheler...
For anyone interested in the crucial role of money in American literature, it cannot seem anything other than eminently fitting that at the very “navel” of the vessel at the centre of the greatest...
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