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Ireland was the last country in the western world to make contraception legally available, and the debate over doing this was divisive. In 1981, one year after contraception became legal on a restricted...
In 1872, the night before a meeting about the progress of education among Indian Muslims, Nawab Mohsin ul-Mulk (1837-1907) woke up and realised that his companion, the famous Muslim reformer Syed Ahmed...
What does an anthropology of the senses entail? What part do the senses play in everyday life in Asia across a variety of historical and contemporary contexts – stretching from the pre- to post-colonial...
The main reason for writing the book The Necessity of Nature was a discovery I made in an out-of-this-world research sojourn in Australia. I had applied somehow carelessly for a Laureate Fellowship with...
With the right light shone upon them, small objects cast large shadows. So it is with the American Short Story, a genre whose outsized presence in American literature – where it is a common feature...
Democracy is about recognition of the people. But how exactly should a democracy recognize the people? The debate over populism is essentially about this question. Over the last two decades, voters around...
As the mob incited by President Donald Trump ransacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, “saw the Nazi imagery in the crowd.” Milley...
A romantic notion of democracy depicts democratic governments as accountable to their citizens and acting in their citizens’ interests. Academic analyses of democratic decision-making support this view....
“In th’olde days of the king ArthourOf which that Britons speaken great honour,All was this land full fill’d with faerie …” In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath reflects that...
For one of the first of the over 250 drawings that Rockwell Kent made to illustrate Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) in 1930, he propped Ishmael up on his elbows, lying on his belly on a grassy hill....
The return to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan in August 2021 shed a renewed spotlight on the fate of the country’s ethno-religious minorities. In September and October of 2021, the two remaining...
My latest book, Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance demonstrates how states played a crucial role from the beginning of the republic in assessing the equilibrium...
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