What is the center of the apostle Paul’s message of good news about God? According to this book, it is something God did and continues to do through Jesus Christ. It is divine self-giving for the benefit...
The late Gilbert Sorrentino once told me that “even Kafka has to write ‘He opened the window.’” It took me some time to feel the force of this remark. But after years of studying modernist literature,...
Around 1248, the merchants of Flanders submitted a complaint to the French king Louis IX about the malfeasance of customs agents at the Franco-Flemish border at Bapaumes. Among the specific complaints...
Perhaps no question concerning the Middle East and Europe today has been more loudly asked than the question “What’s Turkey doing (yet again)?”. Rightfully so, for, Turkey, once hailed by the international...
As Covid-19 spread across Europe in early 2020, my wife and I were in Seville, Spain, where we were spending three months reading, writing, walking, and enjoying the Andalusian cuisine, language, people,...
Representation in the United States has always been a risky proposition. In principle, congressional lawmakers have strong incentives to collaborate on the creation of policies that constituents demand,...
Fat. What a terrible word. It’s what we don’t want. Actually we need a fast way to get rid of it. Or so the word fat is generally perceived. But that’s wrong. We...
Who matters in global politics? For a long time, the answer the majority of International Relations (IR) scholarship gave was simple: states. Then, gradually new actors appeared on the stage of global...
Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire stems from my research on Ottoman architecture, which I began in summer 2014, shortly before the publication of my first book,...
Music is a universal phenomenon. In all cultures we find music, where the penetrating message of the lyrical melody and the rich harmonies of the instrumental ensemble communicate the apprehensions of...
As the United States, Iran, and world powers inch closer to restoring the landmark 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal—formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—issues like American interests,...
With a two-page letter to the editor of the scientific journal Atmospheric Environment published in 1972, the English scientist and inventor James Lovelock (1919-2022) introduced Gaia into the professional...