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The What, Why, and Whither of Faculty Tenure

In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the New York Times documented over 145 instances of workers being disciplined or terminated for comments related to Kirk. Many of those workers were...

Deepa Das Acevedo | 9 Oct 2025

Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China’s Total War (1937–1945)

As a historian of war, I’ve always been curious about how wars have been fought–not just on the impersonal levels of strategy and operations, but also in the much more intimate terms of the everyday....

Jennifer Yip | 8 Oct 2025

DEMOCRACY EXPANDED OR ERODED? ‘Publicity Politicians’ and the Transnational Media Politics of Empire

‘The powerful ruler is today unable to steer the press in his directions simply through his will. Words of command echo as empty calls in the empire of typesetting and rotation machines,’ observed...

Betto van Waarden | 8 Oct 2025

The Relevance of Public Christian Worship

Particularly in Western countries, where the so-called secularization supposedly hit harder than in other parts of the world, many people do not really engage with Christian liturgy. But that does not...

Joris Geldhof | 8 Oct 2025

The Recasting of the Latin American Right: Polarization and Conservative Reactions

The past ten years have been surprising, to say the least, for observers of the Latin American right. There was a time where the left was the star of the show in the region; in the 2000s and 2010s, leaders...

André Borges, Ryan Lloyd, Gabriel Vommaro | 7 Oct 2025

The Story of Mass Incarceration

This book tells the story of mass incarceration through the eyes of the writers who lived through it. Long before Michelle Alexander characterized mass incarceration as the new Jim Crow in America, Dr....

David Coogan | 6 Oct 2025

Universal Biology

What is life, or are there universal properties of living systems? More than 80 years ago, Schrödinger published his seminal monograph What is Life? in which he predicted the nature of DNA as an information-carrying...

Kunihiko Kaneko | 2 Oct 2025

Are beer and law connected? Of course!   

When you mix prized home-crafted beer brewed by a professor of law with long-suffering colleagues prepared to regularly be used as a tasting panel for new types of beer, you may get a lot of creative...

Andreas Wiebe, Alain Strowel, Anthea Gerrard, William Van Caenegem, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, Radim Polčák | 1 Oct 2025

Distilling the Complexities and Rapid Evolution of Climate Change Litigation

In response to insufficient climate action from the legislative and executive branches of government, there has been a marked rise in litigation as a key means of ensuring accountability and advancing...

Sarah Mead, Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh | 30 Sep 2025

Our Plastic Brains & Ezra Pound’s Dangerous Conversion

“Any judgement of MUSSOLINI will be in a measure an act of faith, it will depend on what you believe the man means, what you believe that he wants to accomplish.” — Ezra Pound, Jefferson...

Stephanie Hawkins | 30 Sep 2025

Leibniz Beyond Mathematics: Founding the Political Theory of German Idealism

G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716) is renowned for his groundbreaking work in mathematics, but among his many accomplishments he was also a mining engineer, an inventor, and a pioneer of historical linguistics....

Douglas Moggach | 30 Sep 2025

In the Shadow of the Vatican

“We will have to undertake one of the most difficult tasks facing the Church in our day,” wrote Cline Paden, the young pastor of the non-denominational, evangelical Church of Christ in Brownfield,...

Mario Del Pero | 30 Sep 2025