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Some Realism about the International Criminal Court

The facts on the ground are grim. War in Ukraine has been grindingly destructive, as days and weeks turn into months. As Ukrainian cities are being levelled, civilian targets range from the theatre...

Richard Gaskins | 28 Jun 2022

Legitimacy: crisis or continuity?

We are, according to US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in a ‘crisis of legitimacy’. The US Supreme Court’s overturning of long-settled law Roe vs Wade regarding women’s right to abortion...

Kathy Dodworth | 27 Jun 2022

The fragile landscapes of the body

Combining psychoanalysis, philosophy and anthropology, scientific research and clinical experience, this essay is a truly unique interdisciplinary book, in which the explores how the body represents a...

Floriana Irtelli, Fabio Gabrielli | 27 Jun 2022

Trade Links: New Rules for a New World

In a time of increasing international turmoil, the World Trade Organization is undergoing an existential crisis. Trade links the world not only through the flow of international commerce in goods, services,...

James Bacchus | 24 Jun 2022

Breastfeeding Moms Need Formula, too, Because Workplace Milk-Pumping Accommodations Often Inadequate

To date, millions of American parents have been impacted by the baby formula shortage but breastfeeding parents largely remain unpanicked. Social media has exploded with posts taking note of this and...

Elizabeth A. Hoffmann | 20 Jun 2022

Six millennia of Aegean art… in six hundred pages

This book, initially published in French as ‘L’art égéen’ (two volumes, Paris 2008-2014), provides a history of the artistic output accompanying the development of Aegean civilisations, from the...

Jean-Claude Poursat, Carl Knappett | 16 Jun 2022

Secular Acts and Bad Behavior in the Italian Renaissance Church Interior

In the opening to The Decameron (c. 1350), Boccaccio described how the ten young people who would become storytellers in his book met in a Florentine church during the height of the Black Death: “it...

Joanne Allen | 16 Jun 2022

When should you start to learn how to solve math and science problems?

There are 2520 tours in an 8-city TSP. All of these tours are shown in this animation that runs about 4 minutes. Our subjects produce optimal tours for such problems almost 90% of the time. If you label...

Zygmunt Pizlo | 15 Jun 2022

Why are the Netherlands Protestant and Belgium Catholic?

Anyone who travels through the adjacent countries of Belgium and the Netherlands today immediately sees the contrast: Belgium is full of resplendent, lavishly decorated Catholic churches, while its neighbor...

Christine Kooi | 14 Jun 2022

Some Common Misunderstandings About Biology and Race

The following is adapted from Understanding Race by Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall, Cambridge University Press (2022). When addressing the “reality” of race, we need to realize that the word was...

Ian Tattersall, Rob DeSalle | 13 Jun 2022

Why American Song and Struggle? And Why Begin with Columbus?

I’ve made my name mostly as a Woody Guthrie scholar. Around the time of the Guthrie centenary in 2012, I became increasingly aware of references to Guthrie as ‘the father of American protest music’...

Will Kaufman | 13 Jun 2022

The Arts of Dancing with Death

With the pandemic still looming above us, thoughts of passing away may have crossed your mind repeatedly over the last while. Those thoughts, revolving around a kernel of inert fear, most likely did not...

William E. Engel, Grant Williams, Rory Loughnane | 10 Jun 2022