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One of the enduring assumptions in the study of religion is that belief in the devil emerged as an attempt to explain the existence of evil. Before modern psychology, sociology, or...
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History & Classics
When people think about the Anthropocene—the age in which human activities have become a major force shaping the Earth’s climate, ecosystems, and geology—they usually picture...
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Architecture
While a university student, by chance I took an elective course in glassblowing. One of the first things I remember is learning how to hold the heavy metal blowpipe. Against the soundtrack...
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Art History
Italian Renaissance painter, author, architect, and poet Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for his multi-volume Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects...
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Latin American History
In 2000, while working in the rare books collection of Mexico’s National Library, I encountered something that caught me off guard. As I flipped through the card catalogue of...
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European History
A society’s true measure of success is its capacity to deal with failure. In the mid–seventeenth century, this is just what we can observe in the city of Amsterdam, at the time...
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When is a bullet too deadly to use? When it is banned in the law of war. But why, in a world of deeply violent weapons, would a bullet be considered too violent when these others are...
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Whether it’s the recent Ebola crisis in Africa or the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and war in Ukraine, the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent (IFRC) is there,...
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The United States entered World War II ill-prepared. This was typical—to avoid preparing for war until it occurred. At that point, herculean efforts were exerted, industry...
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American literature
When someone says the name “Allen Ginsberg”, any number of things immediately come to mind. Ginsberg was a celebrated US poet, and his work “Howl” is world famous. But...
Read MoreOne of the enduring assumptions in the study of religion is that belief in the devil emerged as an attempt to explain the existence of evil. Before modern psychology, sociology, or philosophy offered...
Why is it that when some people seek God they come up short? J. L. Schellenberg, following a path blazed by Friedrich Nietzsche, argues that God is hidden for the simple reason that God does not exist....
The twentieth century taught us (at least offered a costly learning opportunity) how to respond to military coups, revolutionary ruptures, and open assaults on democratic government. The twenty-first...
In June 2008, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Støre sat aboard a nuclear icebreaker in Murmansk, watching a football match and drinking vodka. Two...
In 1618, the parish clerk of St Botolph’s Aldgate, in London, wrote a detailed account of a wedding he had just witnessed, ‘because we never had the like’ before. What was so unusual about this...
The soul of modern complexity science lies in understanding, training, and controlling the interactions among millions of elementary degrees of freedom to generate emergent dynamics; in other words,...
What is common in the production of an earring from broken porcelain cups and plates, an evening dress form curtains, a handbag from the cassettes of audio tapes, a lampshade out of discarded Coca Cola...
Institutional investors have become some of the most influential actors in modern capitalism. They decide where pension savings are invested, which companies receive capital, and increasingly shape corporate...
When people think about the Anthropocene—the age in which human activities have become a major force shaping the Earth’s climate, ecosystems, and geology—they usually picture changes on land. Cities...
As my book neared completion, I thought, ‘how great would it be to organize a book launch, something small?” I’m the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, featuring 14 contributors...
Debates about the effectiveness of social interventions often begin with a deceptively simple question: ‘does it work?’ Yet this question obscures the deeper epistemic challenges at stake. Social...
Although there is no credible evidence that the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election were illegitimate, about one-third of Americans (as of 2024) continued to believe that the election was stolen....
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