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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 he...
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US History
Several boys are standing at attention in the middle of the street during a parade in Kansas City, Missouri, May 18, 1918. Courtesy of the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. On...
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History & Classics
One of my favorites children’s books was What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry. Repeatedly, I learned how the Busytown tailors, construction workers, and lumbermill employees...
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Religious Studies Reflections
Whether you’re a wine connoisseur or not, you’ve likely had a moment at a party or a dinner where someone poured you a glass and expected that you would know what to do next. Give...
Read MoreCan money buy happiness? What is the value of things? How do people measure that value, whether we are speaking of consumer products, health, activities, or time? Free markets have a simple answer:...
“With all the bad news on climate science and climate governance lately, how do you find hope to persevere?” In the past decade, I have been asked this question with increasing frequency in my climate...
What can be done to counter far-right social forces? These movements, whether attacking foundational liberal tenets of society (often called ‘radical right’) or attacking democratic systems and norms...
Every few years, hope briefly returns to the Middle East. Negotiators meet behind closed doors, world leaders speak of a historic opportunity, and commentators predict that peace may finally be within...
Many years ago I developed an amateur interest in British ecclesiastical history, brought about particularly by reading on holiday Diarmaid MacCulloch’s astonishing biography of Thomas Cranmer (1996);...
Speed matters. Have you ever felt frustrated because an AI system was too slow to respond? If the waiting time were cut in half, the experience would feel much less stressful. Quality matters too....
Scientific theories have long appeared as polished systems of ideas, presented through equations, models, and textbook explanations. This holds especially for economics. Yet behind every theory there...
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 (1st ed. 1550, 2nd...
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 the Fondo Reservado,...
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 one of the world’s...
The cover of The Anthropocene and Literature features a photo from an abandoned house in the ghost town of Kolmanskop in Namibia. The former mining town was established in the early twentieth century...
At a moment when many Americans fear the rise of a zealous, sometimes racist, form of populism, when the “bonds of affection” between citizens have demonstrably frayed, and a version of authoritarianism...
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