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On 18 September 2012, Rome played host to the quadrennial conference of the International Congress of Coptic Studies. On the evening of that day, the Harvard-based feminist historian Karen King (1054-)...
Whoever you are reading this, however rich, powerful, educated, knowledgeable, successful, or otherwise, one thing is certain: you are limited. Your wealth, success, knowledge, power, and education are...
I first had the idea for this anthology right before the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. The 100 Poems series seemed like the perfect way to highlight both the progression of poetry about outer...
Whilst writing the book ‘Seeking Asylum and Mental Health’, we had to think a lot about words. At the outset we decided to avoid the term ‘asylum seeker’. It is problematic on two counts. Firstly,...
Quota laws increase numbers of women across parties, and they lead to policies that better reflect women’s preferences for balancing work and family. In 2013, a Christian democratic politician from...
It is commonly believed that to attain knowledge, one should always be ready to replace one’s previously held convictions with beliefs that appear to be supported by more evidence. I call this view...
In most stories, books are cast as liberators of knowledge and agents of progress – but they can also be devices to channel and control flows of knowledge. For over two centuries, early printed farming...
From Hamlet to Sanjuro, duels, we believe, are climactic events in narratives; they are the vivid realization of an inevitable conflict between the participants’ opposing notions of honor or duty. But...
A PROMISE THAT IS AT ONCE A CHALLENGE Gene editing offers great promise to reduce human misery and facilitate human health: to combat virus infectious diseases; to correct monogenic disorders in pluripotent...
Given the primacy accorded to the protection of civilians by the United Nations (UN) Security Council and individual UN agencies and bodies, one would expect there to be a system-wide UN policy on the...
Servant of the People By Rebecca Kingston, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and author of Plutarch’s Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England 1500-1800...
How do we know that global temperatures are rising? Why is Pluto no longer considered to be a full-sized planet? Are modal verbs such as must, shall and may are on the decline in the English language?...
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