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Democracy is about recognition of the people. But how exactly should a democracy recognize the people? The debate over populism is essentially about this question. Over the last two decades, voters around...
As the mob incited by President Donald Trump ransacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, “saw the Nazi imagery in the crowd.” Milley...
A romantic notion of democracy depicts democratic governments as accountable to their citizens and acting in their citizens’ interests. Academic analyses of democratic decision-making support this view....
“In th’olde days of the king ArthourOf which that Britons speaken great honour,All was this land full fill’d with faerie …” In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath reflects that...
For one of the first of the over 250 drawings that Rockwell Kent made to illustrate Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) in 1930, he propped Ishmael up on his elbows, lying on his belly on a grassy hill....
The return to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan in August 2021 shed a renewed spotlight on the fate of the country’s ethno-religious minorities. In September and October of 2021, the two remaining...
My latest book, Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance demonstrates how states played a crucial role from the beginning of the republic in assessing the equilibrium...
“Home is where the Wi-Fi connects automatically.” There is some truth in this slightly stereotyped statement: our daily life can no longer be imagined without digital connectivity, and no economic...
We are excited to present our groundbreaking research on the quality of life of olderadult clients of U.S. senior centers through the lens of music participation. Our newbook, Music, Senior Centers, and...
If you cast your line in the right places medieval Europe is full of fish. “A surfeit of lampreys” reportedly killed England’s King Henry I in 1135, and Pope Martin IV (d1285) expired after...
In this book Parasites in Past Civilizations and Their Impact upon Health I explore how parasites affected the key cultures and societies that have shaped our world over the last 10,000 years. As director...
The office of the Union for Democratic Control, 1959. Photograph by Cyril M. Bernard. Courtesy of Miriam Bernard and Hull University Archives
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