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Jazz: That Fantastic Mix

In late 2022, BMW began manufacturing their new hybrid SUV, the XM. The German automaker had unveiled the vehicle in concept form a year earlier—at an Art Basel event they sponsored in Miami Beach,...

Michael Borshuk | 28 Mar 2024

Democracy, Theatre and Performance

We all know that democracy is in trouble.  We are less sure what to blame. Political donations and invisible algorithms? The rise of a culture of personal rights replacing a culture of community?...

David Wiles | 28 Mar 2024

Gods in a nutshell: divine names in the ancient Mediterranean world

Thales of Miletus, in the 6th century BCE, asserted that “everything is full of gods”. In his view, even inanimate things were in fact animate. His vision of the world, taken up by Plato,...

Corinne Bonnet | 27 Mar 2024

Kant’s Ethics in Historical Context

The eighteenth-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) became a towering figure in the history of Western philosophy because his thinking was revolutionary in many ways. Take one of his...

Michael Walschots | 27 Mar 2024

Imagining the Vulnerable Bible

What if the Bible that sits on your shelf-the Bible you hear read from in services, the Bible from which your clergy preach sermons, the Bible held up by politicians inspired by its contents-was...

Andrew S. Jacobs | 27 Mar 2024

Empowering Labor: Leftist approaches to wage policy in unequal democracies

“Empowering Labor” delves into the utilization of wage policy as a pre-distributive instrument by leftist governments in South America and Southern Europe. This comparative study focuses on...

Juan A. Bogliaccini | 22 Mar 2024

Andromeda Galaxy at 100

In 1924, American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953) established the distance of the “Great Nebula” in Andromeda, clearly placing it outside the limits of our Milky Way. All of a sudden, the...

Jean René Roy | 21 Mar 2024

Embracing Positionality in Research

“The law is reason, free from passion.” This statement, attributed to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, suggests that judges, lawyers, and scholars must examine the law objectively, without succumbing...

Lynette J. Chua, Mark Fathi Massoud | 20 Mar 2024

No one hates like a Greek neighbour? Athens and Boiotia in a different perspective

Anyone who has ever watched the Six Nations in Rugby or the World Cup in Football probably is familiar with the sentiment of beating a neighbouring country or rival brings among the faithful. What...

Roy van Wijk | 19 Mar 2024

Agonistic Cultures and Self-Presentation

By exploring how athletic champions wanted their victories to be understood, “Hellenistic Athletes” sheds new light on the relationship of sport, society and politics in the Greek world. Read the...

Sebastian Scharff | 19 Mar 2024

Changing My Mind about Language Policy

When I first started studying language policy, I thought I knew where it came from, how it worked, and why it mattered. In my view at the time, language policy was about national politicians trying to...

Katherine S. Flowers | 13 Mar 2024

The Truth About Energy is the truth about change.

A quick Internet search reveals various Truth About books: on nutrition, cancer, Covid, vinyl records, lies, …, to name a few. But whose truth should we believe, learn about, or invest precious time...

John K. White | 8 Mar 2024