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African History
I didn’t set out to write a book about freedom, or about the Black Atlantic. I thought I was writing a history of education in postcolonial West Africa. But the longer I spent in...
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Philosophy & Religion
This new book, Providence, Evil and Salvation – a Thomist Perspective attempts to address some questions central to the Christian faith: How can we square the belief in God with...
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Philosophy & Religion
One of the enduring assumptions in the study of religion is that belief in the devil emerged as an attempt to explain the existence of evil. Before modern psychology, sociology, or...
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History & Classics
When people think about the Anthropocene—the age in which human activities have become a major force shaping the Earth’s climate, ecosystems, and geology—they usually picture...
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Architecture
While a university student, by chance I took an elective course in glassblowing. One of the first things I remember is learning how to hold the heavy metal blowpipe. Against the soundtrack...
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Art History
Italian Renaissance painter, author, architect, and poet Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for his multi-volume Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects...
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Latin American History
In 2000, while working in the rare books collection of Mexico’s National Library, I encountered something that caught me off guard. As I flipped through the card catalogue of...
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European History
A society’s true measure of success is its capacity to deal with failure. In the mid–seventeenth century, this is just what we can observe in the city of Amsterdam, at the time...
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When is a bullet too deadly to use? When it is banned in the law of war. But why, in a world of deeply violent weapons, would a bullet be considered too violent when these others are...
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Whether it’s the recent Ebola crisis in Africa or the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and war in Ukraine, the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent (IFRC) is there,...
Read MoreI didn’t set out to write a book about freedom, or about the Black Atlantic. I thought I was writing a history of education in postcolonial West Africa. But the longer I spent in the archives in Ghana...
This new book, Providence, Evil and Salvation – a Thomist Perspective attempts to address some questions central to the Christian faith: How can we square the belief in God with the existence of evil?...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice (ECOWAS Court)’s transformation from an economic tribunal into one of Africa’s leading regional human rights courts...
The year 2026 marks 40 years since publication of the first edition of my book ‘Motivational Systems’ by C.U.P.. So, 2026 is an important year for the publication of the 2nd edition of the book. This...
How does law – and, in particular, global law – structure the social space within which we live our lives? My new book, Twa in Rwanda: Situating Global Discourses of Indigeneity, Conservationism and...
Tankers and pipelines spill their toxic contents into oceans and wetlands, the AI industry guzzles massive amounts of water, and imperialist warmongers decimate animals, species, and biosystems across...
The English language has travelled a long way from its origins on an obscure but fertile North Atlantic island, cobbled together with the various tongues of a series of invaders from mainland Europe and...
One of the enduring assumptions in the study of religion is that belief in the devil emerged as an attempt to explain the existence of evil. Before modern psychology, sociology, or philosophy offered...
Why is it that when some people seek God they come up short? J. L. Schellenberg, following a path blazed by Friedrich Nietzsche, argues that God is hidden for the simple reason that God does not exist....
The twentieth century taught us (at least offered a costly learning opportunity) how to respond to military coups, revolutionary ruptures, and open assaults on democratic government. The twenty-first...
In June 2008, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Støre sat aboard a nuclear icebreaker in Murmansk, watching a football match and drinking vodka. Two...
A good question, you might say, and one that some astronomers asked when I presented a paper the subject at a recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society! The philosophy of science and of specific...
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