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To See, or Not to See?: Shakespeare, Whiteness, and the Intraracial Color-Line

[Illustrations to Shakespeare – group scenes – unfinished] [graphic] / J.M. Wright. What is required for people to see race or racial difference? When do people notice either? Beyond that,...

David Sterling Brown | 10 Oct 2023

Morality, the market and the role of professions in capitalism

At a recent conference, a senior colleague asked what my book was called. ‘The rise and fall of the professional class!’, he exclaimed, ‘have they fallen already?’ It was an understandable...

Hannah Forsyth | 6 Oct 2023

Shakespeare Survey 76

When Shakespeare Survey began publishing its annual yearbook of criticism, interpretation, and performance in 1948, computer technology was in flux. Transistors were the new invention (1947). The first...

Emma Smith | 5 Oct 2023

Finding God in Moral Experience

Inquirers about God eventually confront an issue about evidence for God: Is there any salient evidence available to them for God’s reality and goodness? If so, where is it to be found, and how is it...

Paul Moser | 5 Oct 2023

Fascism in America: Past and Present

Nearly one hundred years ago, on November 9th, 1923, Germany withstood the attempt of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party to overthrow the German government in a violent coup. Just two years ago, on January...

Janet Ward, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld | 4 Oct 2023

Ideology, Legal Transplants and Moral Foundation, A Scholarly Account of the Chinese Civil Code

The passage of the Chinese Civil Code in 2021 was a monumental event both for China and the international community. Yet, it is a daunting task to present a scientific account of the Code to a readership...

Pietro Sirena, Hao Jiang (Primary Author) | 4 Oct 2023

How institutions matter in Mozambique

Launched in 2015 and completed in 2022, the Institutional Diagnostic Project aimed at identifying institutional factors that affect development, reforms that may help address existing institutional constraints,...

Ines A. Ferreira, Finn Tarp | 4 Oct 2023

Human Prehistory

I wrote Human Prehistory: Exploring the Past to Understand the Future, to provide students with a complete and easily understandable overview of the most important stages of human anatomical, behavioral...

Deborah Barsky | 4 Oct 2023

The Governance of Chinese Charitable Trusts

In 2001, Chinese legislators introduced public welfare trusts to encourage the public to participate in charitable endeavours, drawing on the experiences of Japan and South Korea. However, despite being...

Hui Jing | 3 Oct 2023

Structuralist and behavioral macroeconomics

The research program that has dominated macroeconomic theory since the 1980s achieved its hegemony mainly because of its methodological claims of having ‘solid microeconomic foundations’. The core...

Peter Skott | 3 Oct 2023

What harms get recognised and redressed by states, and what harms do not?

The Nordic welfare states have a modern history marked by involuntary sterilisation and castration. Such practices have targeted different kinds of marginalised groups and people, whose sexuality and...

Daniela Alaattinoğlu | 3 Oct 2023

Pynchon’s Anthropocene Sunset

In May 2000, the Global Change Newsletter featured a brief note of just over a page which in retrospect has emerged as one of the most important texts of the new millennium. In the short article, the...

Tore Rye Andersen | 29 Sep 2023