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The Company That Lived-and Died-by the Sword

Some time in the late eighteenth century, Madar Khan, a South Indian Muslim, enlisted as a sepoy—a soldier—with the British East India Company, the face of Britain’s rapidly expanding authority...

Christina Welsch | 30 Sep 2022

Debt Sustainability — A Truly Global Challenge!

Global debt, public and private, is at record highs! But there is no agreement on whether we should worry about this much. My new Cambridge Element, Debt Sustainability—A Global Challenge” argues...

Ludger Schuknecht | 27 Sep 2022

The Causal Paradox

David Hume rightly observed that people search for causes because it makes it easier to cope with the world. Causal inference is more important still in the modern world as our lives are so interdependent...

Richard Ned Lebow | 27 Sep 2022

Spies, Writers, and the Cold War in Latin America

What was the impact of surveillance on writers? If a writer is under surveillance by secret police agents, and he or she knows it, does that change what he or she wrote? Would the literature be a reply,...

Daniel Noemi Voionmaa | 27 Sep 2022

Israel, Redefined: Understanding Ezekiel through Migration Studies

The book of Ezekiel speaks to a group of deportees taken to Babylonia in 597 BCE, where they were resettled in the ancient equivalent of a rural refugee camp. The book depicts a community made up largely...

C. L. Crouch | 23 Sep 2022

Resisting Deficit Discourses in Christian Theological Accounts of Gender Diversity

Deficit discourses assume that someone has a problem, or deficit, which needs to be mitigated. For example, deficit discourses might paint new students starting at university as lacking in the knowledge...

Susannah Cornwall | 23 Sep 2022

Investment treaties during armed conflict: Special protection for foreign investors?

Through numerous international agreements, states promise their respective treaty partners to accord foreign investors and their investments protection from unlawful state encroachments as well as violence...

Tobias Ackermann | 23 Sep 2022

Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire

When I lived in Germany, I was spoilt by choice so far as opera was concerned.  I was in an area that had three large theatres separated by two rivers and all very close to one another.  I certainly...

Austin Glatthorn | 22 Sep 2022

The Burned Out Physician

Physicians and other healthcare professionals are facing unprecedented challenges. One of the most critical and potentially devastating challenges is the threat of burnout. That threat has been growing...

John E. Kello, Joseph A. Allen | 21 Sep 2022

“How did hesitation, equivocation, compromise, and serendipity give shape to a Reformation driven by a handful of determined people?”

In my last book, Luther, Conflict, and Christendom, which Cambridge published in 2018, I tried to find an organic way to understand the effects of context and circumstance on one of the great defining...

Christopher Ocker | 21 Sep 2022

Paul’s Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice

What is the center of the apostle Paul’s message of good news about God? According to this book, it is something God did and continues to do through Jesus Christ. It is divine self-giving for the benefit...

Paul Moser | 20 Sep 2022

Are we happier now?

The late Gilbert Sorrentino once told me that “even Kafka has to write ‘He opened the window.’” It took me some time to feel the force of this remark. But after years of studying modernist literature,...

Paul Stasi | 20 Sep 2022