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  • 27 Dec 2022
    Stephen Duckett

    A moral basis for healthcare funding

    Unfortunately economics has a bad reputation. Its policy prescriptions are often seen as unfair, and its methods based on a world of fanciful assumptions. In its application in the public sector, it is often seen as being entirely focused on cost-cutting, not only trimming fat, but bone too. It is devoid of all humanity, treating […]

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  • 27 Dec 2022
    Jolene Hubbs

    Poor White Southerners in the American Imaginary

    Travel about twenty-five miles south from my house and eighty-seven years back in time and you’d have a shot at encountering one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists taking the picture shown above. In August 1936, Walker Evans traveled to Hale County, Alabama, with writer James Agee to document how poorly tenant-farming families were […]

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  • 23 Dec 2022
    Michael Wheeler

    LIVES, LOVES AND LETTERS OF 1845

    In my book The Old Enemies (CUP) I described 1845 as ‘a year of religious crises’. Later, when looking at broader trends that year, I was surprised by the sustained intensity of crises that also arose in three other areas of national life: Ireland, the ‘Condition of England’ and the railways. Deep concern about each […]

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  • 23 Dec 2022
    Paul Joseph Zajac

    Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature

    Well over a decade ago, scholars acknowledged an “affective turn” or “turn to emotions” taking place across disciplines. Yet within the “turn to emotion,” certain types of emotion still turn up far more frequently than others. Reflecting long-standing trends in emotion science, scholars of the humanities have disproportionately focused on what we might call negative […]

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  • 22 Dec 2022
    Peter N. Jordan

    Science, Religion, and Explanation

    Human beings are explanation-seeking creatures. When something happens in our lives or in the world around us, we long for a satisfying understanding of it. That sense of satisfaction usually only emerges when we have figured out the causes responsible for whatever happened, and we have understood the meaning (if one exists) of what took […]

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  • 15 Dec 2022
    Galit Nimrod

    Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-roll?

    The flower children of the 60s are now in their 60s and beyond, but their hippiedom is not just a vague memory of their rebellious youth. My recent study of aging hippies reveals that “once a hippie, always a hippie.” Moreover, it suggests that we all have a lesson or two to learn from the hippies about aging well.

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  • 14 Dec 2022
    Markus Vinzent

    A two-way approach to Early Christianity

    By writing counter-clockwise, beginning from the Medieval Ages moving backwards towards the beginnings of Christianity. Based on the restrospective account that has been introduced by How to write Early Christian History. From Reception to Retrospection (CUP, 2019), and tested by four case studies, the present book studies early Christian historiographers, asking two questions: How did […]

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  • 14 Dec 2022
    Elijah Gaddis

    Objects, Memory, and Place: The Background of Gruesome Looking Objects

    Historians are people of the paper, always hoping for the revelation of some remarkable event sitting unremarked upon in an archival page. We are equally sure that such revelations are rare, and usually the products of many dozens of hours of toil. With Gruesome Looking Objects, I discovered the thread of the story in about […]

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