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Everybody’s Talkin’

Everybody’s talking about race, but not many seem to know what it is, or where it came from. That’s understandable, for there’s not a single story of the history of race to be written. How concepts...

John Ernest | 6 May 2022

Political and Legal Emotions at the International Criminal Court

During the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Gutteres, went to Ukraine. Apart from capital city, Kyiv, Gutteres visited the town of Bucha which...

Jonas Bens | 6 May 2022

Was satire a literary boys’ club in the 18th century?

For centuries, scholars have characterized eighteenth-century literary satire as an aggressive and specifically masculine practice and genre. This perception is clearly apparent in twentieth-century...

Amanda Hiner, Elizabeth Tasker Davis | 5 May 2022

Measuring Contributions to Electricity Grid Reliability

Moving towards a low-carbon economy will require integrating massive quantities of renewable power into the electricity grid. This transition will create many challenges as existing electricity market...

Andrew N. Kleit, Todd Aagaard | 5 May 2022

Redress for environmental destruction: is it time for an International Court for the Environment (ICE)?

The threat of severe anthropogenic harm to the environment continues to grow year-on-year. Military attacks, illegal resource extraction, exploiting endangered species, toxic dumping, and rampant deforestation...

Matthew Gillett | 28 Apr 2022

Intention and Wrongdoing: In Defense of Double Effect

In an incident which has become notorious in philosophical circles, in 1956 a young philosopher by the name of Elizabeth Anscombe protested the awarding of an honorary degree by Oxford to former US President...

Joshua Stuchlik | 26 Apr 2022

WOMEN AT WAR

It is sometimes overlooked that many thousands of women served alongside men in the British armed forces during the Second World War. Over the conflict, some 600,000 women were absorbed into the three...

Jeremy A. Crang | 25 Apr 2022

Who control Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)?

We are witnessing an emergence of network-based commercial and utility driven platforms which by some have been announced to be the business model of the 21st century. Innovative business models, such...

Linn Anker-Sørensen | 25 Apr 2022

Public banks with a green and just public purpose are our best hope

Everyone knows it. We are facing a global environmental crisis of extinction-level proportions driven by carbonizing fossil capitalism. In May 2021 the International Energy Agency (IEA) released it most...

Thomas Marois | 22 Apr 2022

Making History: Shaping the Past through Print

Figure 1: Catalogue from Shakespeare's First Folio (1623; STC 22273). Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Shelf mark PFORZ 905 PFZ.

AMY LIDSTER | 21 Apr 2022

Hey, so does this book on silence consist of 334 empty pages?

Ha ha ha, no, in between the many examples of silence in writing (classic and other), in dialogues, in public exchanges as well as in intersubjective conversations, comes speech: words and paragraphs...

Michal Ephratt | 21 Apr 2022

Surviving Climate Chaos and Promoting Peace with Nature

UN Secretary General António Guterres has described our efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change as “a damning indictment of failed climate leadership”. Its consequences, he notes, include...

Julian Caldecott | 20 Apr 2022