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The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York

It has been more than three decades since the discovery and archaeological investigation of the African American burial ground in New York City. Since then, a generation of historians have prompted...

Michael J. Douma | 9 Jan 2025

Exploring Quantum Nonlocality and Contextuality: A Journey Through the Växjö Conferences and My New Book

Quantum mechanics—one of the most puzzling and fascinating areas of modern science—has captivated both physicists and the public for over a century. From Einstein’s skepticism about its strange...

Andrei Khrennikov | 9 Jan 2025

Structure Matters: Why complex systems matter for behavior

Why do we see the behaviors that we do in the world? This question has challenged many notable thinkers, including Darwin, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Lévi-Strauss, Durkheim, and many other past and recent...

Thomas T. Hills | 7 Jan 2025

Karl Barth on Religion

The world is in a mess – wars, famines, storms, floods, and massacres – human existence so often seems, as Thomas Hobbes thought, nasty, brutish, and short. Karl Marx thought that religion was ‘the...

Keith Ward | 7 Jan 2025

Principles of Finance

Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton, & Richard T. Thakor Publishing 12 February 2025 | Paperback / $74.99 / £54.99 / 9781108987165 Order an examination copy About the Book Written for...

Richard T. Thakor, Robert C. Merton, Zvi Bodie | 6 Jan 2025

Touring Tokyo: Past and Present

It may be hard to imagine that today’s Tokyo-a vibrant and expansive metropolis home to more than 14 million people-was once a sleepy backwater dotted with fishing villages. But for many centuries,...

Eiko Maruko Siniawer | 6 Jan 2025

Constitutional Symmetry:  Judging in a Divided Republic

The United States is divided over politics, and each major political coalition advances a distinct constitutional vision that aligns with its policy goals. Conservatives interpret the Constitution to...

Zachary S. Price | 2 Jan 2025

The Bible’s First Kings

Kings Saul, David, and Solomon are some of the most famous biblical figures. Stories about Solomon’s wealth and wisdom have become proverbial in the cultures dominated by Abrahamic religions, and David’s...

Avraham Faust, Zev I. Farber | 30 Dec 2024

American influence in Ireland: historical perspectives

During the visit of President Joe Biden to Ireland in April 2023 there was discussion in the Irish press about the relative strength of the Irish American relationship. The influence of the USA in Ireland...

Fionnuala Walsh | 26 Dec 2024

Bonaventure’s Journey of the Mind into God

“No work of St. Bonaventure is more widely known and more justly praised than the brief treatise called the Itinerarium mentis in Deum. For clarity of expression, mastery of organization, and density...

Randall Smith | 24 Dec 2024

The Pen and the Scalpel: Vivisection & Late-Victorian Literary Culture

In 1885, John Ruskin resigned as Slade Professor of Art to protest the establishment a laboratory for experimental physiology at Oxford University. ‘I cannot lecture in the next room to a shrieking...

Asha Hornsby | 23 Dec 2024

Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries: A Global South Perspective

In a world largely shaped by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, now expanding to new members —are emerging as influential players in the...

Luca Belli | 20 Dec 2024