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Should the rich pay higher fines?

What if fines could be adjusted not only to the severity of the offense, but also to the income of the offender? What if the rich pay a higher fine than the poor for the same offense? This is not just...

Michael Faure, Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko | 18 Jun 2021

Freedom Beyond the Border

In 1829, Ohio’s state legislators made an announcement that reverberated through African American communities across the nation. Responding to white discomfort over the state’s growing free Black...

Elena K. Abbott | 17 Jun 2021
Jeffrey N. Cox | 16 Jun 2021

The Biblical Authors Should Count as Philosophers

Why isn’t the biblical literature taught alongside other philosophies? By any objective criteria, it measures up to the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. In Biblical Philosophy: A Hebraic...

Dru Johnson | 15 Jun 2021

Beyond lipstick: how languages can change the scientific Babel

As an applied linguist interested in science communication, an important specialised domain of language in society today, I have developed high perceptiveness of the richness and the power of the...

Carmen Pérez-Llantada | 14 Jun 2021

From exegesis to stem cells, from governance to finance: Islamic norms in a positivist way

During the 1990s, in Egypt, Professor Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd was prosecuted by a group of attorneys and condemned by two courts of the Egyptian national judicial system to be divorced from his wife based...

Baudouin Dupret | 11 Jun 2021

Tom Stoppard in Context

Tom Stoppard is one of the world’s most lauded and commercially successful playwrights, author of more than a dozen award-winning and profitable plays for the West End and Broadway. He has also been...

James N. Loehlin | 11 Jun 2021

Hearing E. M. Forster

Most readers recognize E. M. Forster as the early twentieth-century writer who wrote about India; some remember his socially relevant and thematically wide-ranging Edwardian novels and short stories,...

Tsung-Han Tsai | 11 Jun 2021

Jean-Baptiste Biot, founder of the scientific study of meteorites

Four years ago, when I began to write From Crust to Core, A chronicle of deep carbon science, the astrophysicist in me looked forward to documenting the story of how Earth’s carbon originated long ago...

Simon Mitton | 10 Jun 2021

The in-betweens in Myanmar: What is happening after authoritarian relapse and military take-over?

Myanmar’s transition after a new civilianized government emerged in 2011 came to excite investors and development practitioners from across the world. Economic capital Yangon circa 2014 was a town where...

Kristina Simion | 10 Jun 2021

Steinbeck vs. Werewolf

Writing a book about John Steinbeck has many twists and turns, but something I never expected was to go viral in the process. I was interviewed by Dalya Alberge for The Guardian/The Observer about my...

Gavin Jones | 9 Jun 2021

An Unlikely Survivor: Wallace Stevens, Poet

These are not the days when most educators would be inclined to turn to a writer with the profile of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). A Eurocentric white male upper-middle-class poet, academically installed...

Bart Eeckhout | 8 Jun 2021