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Who Am I And Why This Book

I am a British neurologist who has practiced in London for over 45 years and specialising in epilepsy (at the ‘National Hospital, Queen Square’, originally called at the National Hospital for the...

Simon D. Shorvon | 11 Jan 2023

Royal Heirs

In the German elections of 1912, the Social Democrats emerged as the largest party in the Reichstag. When assessing what this meant for a proud imperial monarchy led by as bombastic a figure as Emperor...

Frank Lorenz Müller | 11 Jan 2023

WHERE DID THE SCHOLARS GO?

When you think about Latin American literature, you might first recall the magical realist novels that hit the international literary markets in the mid-twentieth century. This region’s literature might...

Amanda Holmes | 11 Jan 2023

Rethinking Counterinsurgency’s Intellectual History

Counterinsurgent warfare is perhaps the dominant form of armed conflict of recent decades. Moreover, its counterrevolutionary variants and antecedents have been with us for centuries. My new book, The...

Joseph MacKay | 11 Jan 2023

The new (constitutional) clothes of the European Central Bank will be revealed as the inflation tide is turning – is it swimming naked?

Warren Buffet famously remarked: ‘only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked’. Given his success with a common-sensical and longer-term perspective on money and investing,...

Klaus Tuori | 11 Jan 2023

Tolstoy in Our Times

When the COVID-19 pandemic brought normal life to a halt in 2020, thousands of people around the globe began reading Lev Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Virtual reading groups, forums, and op-eds peppered...

Anna A. Berman | 11 Jan 2023

Wild animals suffer, too. Should we help them?

The amount of animal suffering in the world is overwhelming. Luckily, there are effective ways to help. For instance, by transitioning to a plant-based diet, you can save on average 30 animals a month,...

Catia Faria | 10 Jan 2023

Sustainable Value Creation in the European Union

Sustainability is on the agenda of many policymakers, businesses, civil society organisations and academia. The publication of the book Sustainable Value Creation in the European Union is therefore especially...

Beate Sjåfjell, Charlotte Villiers, Georgina Tsagas | 10 Jan 2023

It’s human to like literature, and it likes us back.

My friend Heather Dubrow, critic and poet, turned to me and said: “The text as enemy.” She was commenting on a talk just given by a prominent literary scholar who championed literary criticism...

Ullrich Langer | 10 Jan 2023

Mental Maps of Nationalisms

Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] Gandhi (1869-1948), anti-colonial nationalist who led nonviolent campaign for India's national self-reliance and independence from British rule; with spinning wheel and caption “The future depends on what we do in the present”. Tomoji NAKAMURA, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Christina Lubinski | 10 Jan 2023

Life as a Bilingual: Part 1

Who could have imagined this kind of success for a scientific blog on bilingualism?In 2016, François Grosjean was interviewed about his Psychology Today blog, “Life as a bilingual”, by Ewa...

François Grosjean | 9 Jan 2023

Black Holes and Galaxies

More than a century after Einstein formulated General Relativity (GR), black holes are firmly established as one of its most striking and inescapable consequences. This realisation itself arrived only...

Andrew King | 6 Jan 2023