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In this excerpt from Dirty Entanglements, Louise Shelley explains how the complex interweaving of crime, terrorism, and corruption has set the stage for one of the most complicated moments in international politics.
With Scotland due to vote on a referendum declaring independence from the United Kingdom next week, Mo Moulton, the author of Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England, takes a look back at Irish independence and the culture of the British Isles.
Mark Richardson of Doshisha University and the author of Robert Frost in Context says there will always be a place in this world for poetry as long as humans continue to be their imperfect selves. His research on popular American poet Robert Frost underscores that intentions in life can sometimes have little influence on end results.
This October, the third volume of the celebrated Letters of Samuel Beckett will hit shelves, reigniting our passion here at fifteeneightyfour for one of the greatest modern writers. Written at the...
This book reconsiders the views of Leo Strauss on the relationship between philosophy, law and political violence—the aspect of Strauss’s philosophical scholarship that has been most publicly controversial,...
What concerns arise as to the EU and US agreeing a new trade deal? How should we understand the NSA/ Snowdon affair? What makes judges want to learn from each other across the Atlantic? How can the EU...
We don't think of the Middle Ages as particularly humorous, but it turns out we've been wrong all along! Jamie Kreiner, the author of The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom, explores early (and unfamiliar) comedy, with some jokes along the way.
If you enjoyed last week's post from Brian Jeffrey Maxson on humanisim in Florence, check out his piece this week as he takes you behind the scenes conducting research in the Florence state archives for his book The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence.
Recent years have seen the political prominence of Mormons taken to a new level – including the presidential candidacy of Republican Mitt Romney, the prominent involvement of Mormons in the campaign for California's Proposition 8, and the ascendancy of Democrat Harry Reid to the position of Senate Majority Leader. In this excerpt from Seeking the Promised Land, three scholars consider the legacy and future of Mormons in American politics.
In this interview with Tony Hey, the author of this fall’s The Computing Universe ruminates on the fascinating and uncertain future of our increasingly digital world. What is the future of artificial...
Maartje Abbenhuis, the author of An Age of Neutrals: Great Power Politics, 1815–1914, studies neutrality and internationalism, including the history of The Netherlands during the First World War to explain the power of a nation that declined to take sides.
Explore some figures from the battlefields of the Great War, from the Red Baron and Mata Hari to the Harlem Hell Fighters.
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