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WHEN FRENCH HISTORIANS CONQUERED THE WORLD: THE FUNERAL ORATION AFTER NICOLE LORAUX

Nicole Loraux speaks at a conference in Montrouge (Paris) in 1987, along with, from left to right, Claude Lefort, Louis Dumont and François Furet. Paris, l’École des hautes études en sciences...

David M. Pritchard | 13 Feb 2024

Dog Economics: Perspectives on Our Canine Relationships

We share the fondness many people have for dogs. In the United States, approximately half of households express their fondness by opening their doors, and most often their hearts, to dogs. Indeed, a majority...

David L. Weimer, Aidan R. Vining | 9 Feb 2024

Reasoning about Reasoning

Studying self-referring language is fun. This is the reason why so many philosophers talk about the logic of truth. When we talk about the truth or falsity of sentences, we use language to talk about...

Edwin Mares | 9 Feb 2024

The Making of States: Indeterminacy, International Law, and Creating New Political Communities

We live in a world of States. With the exception of the high seas, outer space, and Antarctica, the entirety of our currently inhabitable environment falls within the jurisdiction of one State or another....

Alex Green | 6 Feb 2024

The Challenge of John Herschel

When I want to introduce people to the nineteenth-century polymath John Herschel (1792–1871), sometimes it’s difficult to know where to begin. There are simply so many possible ways to start: He...

Stephen Case | 6 Feb 2024

The Macroeconomics of Decarbonisation

Scientific evidence is clear: human activities have released enough greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere to have already altered the climate, with already strong effects on ecosystems, societies...

Grégory Claeys, Marie Le Mouel, Georg Zachmann, Guntram B. Wolff, Simone Tagliapietra | 1 Feb 2024

Is a court of law a factory?

With all the recent interest in the International Criminal Court – can it prosecute Putin? Will it intervene in the Hamas-Israeli War? Will it finally investigate crimes in Venezuela? –...

Richard Clements | 30 Jan 2024

The Supreme Court in the 1920s: Make Law for a Divided Nation

This book constitutes Volume X in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. It is an authoritative account of the period 1921-1930, when William Howard Taft...

Robert C. Post | 25 Jan 2024

Fish’s Clinical Psychopathology (Fifth Edition)

Psychopathology is fascinating. It is the science and study of psychological and psychiatric symptoms. A clear understanding of clinical psychopathology lies at the heart of effective delivery of psychiatric...

Brendan Kelly, Patricia Casey | 25 Jan 2024

Legacy: How to Build the Sustainable Economy

Almost everyone agrees we are on an unsustainable path. Disputes are about just how unsustainable that path is. What few people grasp is the obvious implication: what is unsustainable will not be sustained....

Dieter Helm | 25 Jan 2024

2023 Retrospect: Emotions and Politics

Blog #5 of the Psychology and its Antecedents series As we look to the launch of a new year – a clean slate to create happiness – a review of the year just finishing seems to have exacted a toll...

24 Jan 2024

Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini

It’s always difficult to step outside one’s comfort zone. In the case of this book, the process of getting ready to step outside took a decade. This may seem unreasonably long, since the step...

Nancy November | 23 Jan 2024