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The minds of our nearest kin

Recently, I was in Wauchula, Florida, at the Center for Great Apes, which is a sanctuary for chimpanzees and orangutans.  There, I met Sandra, an orangutan, and the only non-human person living...

Bennett L. Schwartz, Michael J. Beran | 31 Jul 2022

Revising Spatial Frames in East African History

In On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890, I seek to challenge how East African history is conceived in space. I do so in two core ways. First, I take the...

Philip Gooding | 28 Jul 2022

Not just another book about the Second World War

In Britain there is no shortage of academic scholarship, novels, television shows and films about the Second World War. It is a topic that plays a central role in secondary history education. It is a period...

Rachel Chin | 28 Jul 2022

Why do non-State armed groups detain?

In January 2020, the UN International Commission of Inquiry on Syria issued a report detailing the activities of the different parties to the conflict(s), including non-State armed groups (NSAGs). The...

Ezequiel Heffes | 27 Jul 2022

Progressives, Moderates, and the Politics of Principle and Pragmatism

There is much agreement among ‘progressives’ and ‘moderates’ that the modern Republican Party is an existential threat to American democracy. This agreement, I believe, is well-founded. With notable...

Eric W. Cheng | 27 Jul 2022

Fundamentals of Operating Department Practice

The operating department is strange; it is at once familiar to the public and those that work in the hospital and yet at the same time an unknown ritualistic world hidden behind locked doors, with its...

Daniel Rodger | 25 Jul 2022

Is International Law Relevant to the Arab-Israeli Conflict?

It is axiomatic that States act out of their own self–interest, dictated by political, military and economic considerations. Furthermore, international law lacks the elements one normally associates...

Robbie Sabel | 22 Jul 2022

What happened to the Lubanga Case? Between malfunctions and errors of AWS.

What does it mean to say that a weapon or a system is autonomous? As simple as this question sounds, the term opens a pandora’s box, because ‘autonomy’ has different meanings according to the field...

Afonso Seixas-Nunes | 21 Jul 2022

Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity

How Progressive Writers, Anna Jameson to Vernon Lee, Sought and Found An Alternative Germany. LADY BRACKNELL ...

Linda K. Hughes | 19 Jul 2022

Studying Genealogies of Black Sovereignty and Joy

Scholars have long argued that slavery deprived men and women of African descent of sovereignty and that the violence it visited daily on their bodies and psyche closed all possibilities of joy. Indeed,...

Miguel A. Valerio | 15 Jul 2022

History, Rights, and Constitutional Law

The Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overruled Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case recognizing a right to an abortion, and the 1992 Casey decision that reaffirmed Roe. From any...

H. Jefferson Powell | 12 Jul 2022

Telling evolutionary stories

Evolutionary biologists are storytellers. We are in the business of telling more or less informed stories about the evolution of lineages. But we operate under a curse. What we are most interested in,...

Ronald A. Jenner | 11 Jul 2022