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Imagine a deluge of scholarly works, all describing the symptoms of a disease—but offering no discussion of the deep-rooted factors that caused the outbreak. In recent years, as democracies have faced...
It’s a cliché that Britain’s power as a nation is linked to the English language, so much so that prime minister Theresa May assured the public that Brexit would be a success because “our language...
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Hà Tiên, situated in the western Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral not far from Vietnam’s present border with Cambodia, thrived as an entrepôt over much of the eighteenth century. The...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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