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Distilling the Complexities and Rapid Evolution of Climate Change Litigation

In response to insufficient climate action from the legislative and executive branches of government, there has been a marked rise in litigation as a key means of ensuring accountability and advancing...

Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Sarah Mead | 30 Sep 2025

Our Plastic Brains & Ezra Pound’s Dangerous Conversion

“Any judgement of MUSSOLINI will be in a measure an act of faith, it will depend on what you believe the man means, what you believe that he wants to accomplish.” — Ezra Pound, Jefferson...

Stephanie Hawkins | 30 Sep 2025

Leibniz Beyond Mathematics: Founding the Political Theory of German Idealism

G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716) is renowned for his groundbreaking work in mathematics, but among his many accomplishments he was also a mining engineer, an inventor, and a pioneer of historical linguistics....

Douglas Moggach | 30 Sep 2025

In the Shadow of the Vatican

“We will have to undertake one of the most difficult tasks facing the Church in our day,” wrote Cline Paden, the young pastor of the non-denominational, evangelical Church of Christ in Brownfield,...

Mario Del Pero | 30 Sep 2025

Beyond Colonialism: The Long Shadow of War in Latin America’s Development

Capable states that enforce the rule of law, secure property rights, and provide public goods are prerequisites for development, but where do they originate? Last year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was...

Luis L. Schenoni | 25 Sep 2025

The debate on the European Court of Human Rights: lessons from history

The debate on the European Court of Human Rights is back – if it ever left in the first place. After a decade-long push to move toward increased subsidiarity, the most recent stage in the debate...

Wiebe Hommes | 25 Sep 2025

From Trade-offs to Intelligence: Supply Chain Management in the World of AI

Supply chain management has often been perceived as the practice of having the right product, at the right time, in the right place, to meet market demand without holding excess inventory. Naturally,...

Işık Biçer | 22 Sep 2025

Statistical Mechanics as the Rosetta Stone of Physics?

The Rosetta Stone is a famous stone artefact that was found in Rosetta in 1799 with inscriptions written on it in three different languages: Ancient Egyptian, Demotic and Ancient Greek. Given that Ancient...

Fabien Paillusson | 18 Sep 2025

The Women Who Threw Corn

How many witches did the Spanish Inquisition burn in Mexico?  My name is Martin Nesvig and my new book The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico discusses witchcraft...

Martin Austin Nesvig | 16 Sep 2025

J. S. Bach’s Enigmatic Suites for Solo Cello

Compared with [J. S. Bach’s] six sonatas for violin without accompaniment these violoncello solos are light and unpretending. Nevertheless, they are interesting, because they are Bach’s. The first...

Edward Klorman | 10 Sep 2025

How to talk to your child about drugs

After nearly thirty years working as an addiction psychiatrist with people with drug related problems, I have met many young people experiencing often severe challenges including dependence and associated...

Owen Bowden-Jones | 10 Sep 2025

Never Again? Transitional Justice and Prevention of Conflict Recurrence

Since the end of World War II, the vow of ‘Never Again’ has been repeated by state leaders, international organisations, diplomats and activists worldwide. The famous phrase appears on genocide memorials...

Maja Davidović | 5 Sep 2025