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A foundational objective of the Constitution of the United States is to “promote the general Welfare.” However, the Constitution does not define “general Welfare.” The Constitutional premise that...
Have you ever felt like an imposter in your own profession? As a non-native English-speaking teacher and researcher, I’ve spent years grappling with this feeling. It wasn’t until very recently that...
The Information Economy At Facebook’s initial public offering in 2012, Mark Zuckerberg shared a motto: “Move fast and break things.” Later abandoned by Facebook, the catchphrase prevails as a...
The General Theory of Relativity (GTR), enunciated just over a hundred years ago by Albert Einstein, remains to this day the best available description of gravitation, the feeblest out of the four fundamental...
What are norms, and why do they matter for international relations? How do they help to guide and constitute state behaviour at the international level, as well as behaviour by other actors like international...
The German Weimar Republic lasted a mere fifteen years, from the end of the First World War to Hitler’s dictatorship in 1933. It nevertheless became the paradigmatic historical event shaping political...
The constitutions of the fifty states in the United States create by their authority as fundamental law the structure of government and the means and mechanisms of governance for state, local, and special...
1 Background In 1873 the French mathematician Emil Mathieu published a paper in which he ’glued’ together copies of the projective special linear group L2(23) acting on the 24-point projective...
Starting in 2015, in the wake of the shooting of ten members of the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC by white supremacist Dylann Roof, a movement grew to dismantle the icons of the Confederacy throughout...
The headline shouts, “Genetics is a big reason divorce runs in families.” It is common nowadays to hear that some surprising aspect of human behavior is “heritable.” Often it is said about intelligence,...
This year’s Nobel prize in physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for `foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks´(press...
Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most widely read and influential texts in medieval Europe. Its influence can be clearly seen in philosophical works as diverse as Thomas Aquinas’...
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