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How do new types of animal originate?

how did the first beak evolve? Conventional evolutionary theory is very good at explaining variations on a theme. Examples include the evolution of dark moths from pale ones, the evolution of big...

Wallace Arthur | 26 May 2021

Let’s Be Afro-Realistic: Muslim-Christian Manifold Relations in Nigeria

‘What’s Wrong with Nigeria?’; ‘Nigeria in Crisis’; ‘Nigeria’s Religious Riots Continue’; ‘Boko Haram: World’s Deadliest Terror Organization’: this is just a random selection of national...

Marloes Janson | 25 May 2021

Money and the Rule of Law

Monetary policy and the Federal Reserve seem boring to most people…until they’re not. And when things get lively, serious economic damage usually follows. There’s a reason the expression “May...

Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, Daniel J. Smith | 25 May 2021

Learning How to Recover in a Post-Pandemic Era

To be convalescent, in the nineteenth century, was to have survived a medical crisis and to be still picking up the pieces. The category of convalescence could be applied to the survival of all kinds...

Hosanna Krienke | 24 May 2021

Q&A: Theory and Applications of Colloidal Suspension Rheology

What inspired this book? Colloidal suspension rheology continues to be among the most active areas of research in the field of soft matter as evidenced from the literature and among the most subscribed...

Norman J. Wagner, Jan Mewis | 22 May 2021

Are the world’s ecosystems about to collapse?

In 2016, a major environmental crisis occurred: much of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef bleached and died. The Barrier Reef is one of the natural wonders of the world, home to thousands of species,...

Adrian C. Newton | 21 May 2021

Structuring Self Control

In my experience, people exhibit an innate fascination with the self and, specifically, the extent to which they are able to command, regulate, or control it. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle each spoke...

Joshua John Clarkson | 21 May 2021

Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain

What can we gain, as historians, if we look closely at the history of refugees in Britain? In my new book I argue that it can illuminate all sorts of unexpected areas of British life, society, and government,...

Becky Taylor | 19 May 2021

Does Literature “Evolve”?

Why does art even have a history, asked Ernst Gombrich in his classic book Art and Illusion? We might suppose, for instance, that everyone’s pictures would be different, a stylistic jumble resulting...

Nicholas D. Paige | 14 May 2021

Measuring Behaviour: The Next Generation

The first three editions of Measuring Behaviour were co-authored by Patrick Bateson, known as Pat to his family and friends, and his former graduate student Paul Martin. I had a very special relationship...

Melissa Bateson | 13 May 2021

How to Be Intolerant: Beyond Simplistic Liberalism

Amidst surges of right- and left-wing populisms—from Trumpian Tea Parties to Black Lives Matter—one cannot avoid hearing accusations that one or another opponent is “divisive” and intolerant....

Christopher A. Haw | 12 May 2021

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Fascist Theatre

In a passage of A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf reported that Italian men of letters had expressed their hope – in a telegram to il Duce Benito Mussolini – that ‘the Fascist era would soon...

12 May 2021