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My work as a forensic linguist provided a window into the interrogation room. One of the cases in which I consulted was a criminal appellate case in which the defendant’s invocation for counsel was...
It Was the Economy, Again, Stupid! The Great Recession, a global economic crisis that began in 2007, generated extensive protest of varying intensity and form in nations around the world. The typical...
Academics first become interested in a research field in different ways – some by following a course at university, others through listening and talking to motivating speakers, others by events they...
The question of whether the classical Aristotelian-Thomistic school of thought may correspond with the evolutionary worldview continues to inspire research and (sometimes heated) debates. A number...
In 2017 a new musical about the life of Louis Braille, The Braille Legacy, opened in London. The show was widely criticised for its flagrant inaccessibility: of the 90 performances, only two were Audio...
‘American soldiers in Cap Haitien, Haiti, during Operation Uphold Democracy in October 1994.’ Image credit: US National Archives (NARA). In late 1999, the United States Army found itself confronted...
What can theater teach us about war? How did war influence theatrical practices in eighteenth-century France and its empire? What do military-theatrical projects reveal about the scope and goals...
In spring 1533, a ninety-year-old widow named Avice Willes compiled a petition setting out various grievances she held against her neighbours. Owing to her ‘debilitation, weakness, and innocency’,...
This illustration appeared at the start of the serialisation of Thomas Hardy’s “A Few Crusted Characters” (then called “Wessex Folk”); afterwards collected into the volume of Life’s Little...
When Angela Davis called attention to the fascist tendencies in the United States that threatened American democracy during a 2016 interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, some in the mainstream media...
How do we learn to listen? Like most worthwhile things, listening well takes time, practice, and perseverance. While it might seem like good music ought to reveal its fruits intuitively to...
View of the Plaza Mayor in Lima with stalls under the arcades. Illustration by Ignacio Merino. Esteban Terralla y Landa, Lima por dentro y fuera, Paris: Librería Española A. Mézin, 1854. S25/1263....
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