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In song, the refrain—a portion of text and music repeated between stanzas—gives singers and listeners an opportunity to join together on the most memorable and predictable part of a song. As any singer can attest, refrains are retained in the memory even as the rest of the words and melodies of a song slip away. […]
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Court-packing is in the air in the United States. Having decisively lost any hope of getting the current Supreme Court to rule in their favor, liberals today have begun to entertain ideas about Court reform that would have seemed fanciful a decade ago. We’ve been here before. In the mid-1930s the Supreme Court issued a […]
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Sex, gender, and sexuality. What sense have different people, institutions, and the state made of these terms since the late nineteenth century? To the medical doctors, scientists, social reformers, and government officials of the emerging modern nation and empire of Japan (1868–1945), the distinction of sex from gender was largely meaningless. Sexuality was the natural […]
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This book is about survival, resilience, and community building; it tells the story of rural communities on the islands of Lemnos and Thasos in the Northern Aegean and narrates their experiences in dealing with political and economic crises, enemy threats, and the Black Death in the Late Byzantine period (13th -15th century). There are many […]
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The idea for the The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration evolved from my realisation some 15 years ago now that there was comparatively little literature either on the fortunes of English Civil War and Interregnum republicanism after 1660 or on the exile experience of English republicans. The reasons for that did not […]
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For all its other-worldly reputation, philosophy has always been very good at PR. Already in ancient Greece, philosophers sold their teaching as a way of life that would supposedly make you a better, happier person. One member of the Epicurean sect erected a giant billboard in Oenoanda (South-West Turkey), telling its citizens that adherence to […]
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A woman holding a baby in one arm with a gun slung over the other. It’s a powerful image of a society mobilizing for revolution, carrying overtones of self-determination and gender equality. Striking in its individuality, the image is likely familiar to many across the globe since versions appeared in the late 1960s and 1970s […]
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