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The French Inception of the American Democratic Party

The U.S. Constitution of 1787 made no provisions for political parties. Only amidst the rivalries of the Washington administration, pitting Thomas Jefferson’s faction against Alexander Hamilton’s,...

Micah Alpaugh | 4 Nov 2021

What Inspired me to Write a Book on Dyslexia and Anxiety?

Diagnosed later in life with dyslexia, I have first-hand experience of the interrelatedness between dyslexia, anxiety, and negative emotion. After completing a master’s degree, I undertook an education...

Amanda T. Abbott-Jones | 4 Nov 2021

Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage

How do ideas take shape? How do concepts emerge into form? This book argues that they take shape quite literally in the human body, often appearing on stage in new styles of performance.Performance, in...

Julia A. Walker | 3 Nov 2021

Surviving Climate Chaos: Leaving no one behind

The most reliable way to ensure than no one is left behind is for vulnerable people to be watched over by neighbours who can alert public services and monitor the response.

Julian Caldecott | 3 Nov 2021

Author Shrawan Kumar’s Mathematical Journey

Even though I have liked mathematics ever since elementary school, I really started to enjoy mathematics in middle school, when I learned proofs in Plane Geometry. During my high school (up to grade 12),...

Shrawan Kumar | 29 Oct 2021

Q&A with Chris Jay Hoofnagle & Simson L. Garfinkel, authors of ‘Law and Policy for the Quantum Age’

Law and Policy for the Quantum Age (out now as Open Access) is for readers interested in the political and business strategies underlying quantum sensing, computing, and communication. This work explains...

Simson L. Garfinkel, Chris Jay Hoofnagle | 29 Oct 2021

An early manifestation of a contemporary debate: Kant’s early critics on freedom of the will

Contemporary analytic philosophy on free will deals with questions such as “How is freedom of the will possible given the causal predetermination of events in the world?” or “How can we justify...

John Walsh, Jörg Noller | 28 Oct 2021

Surviving Climate Chaos: The need for good leadership

Brave and accountable leaders who are competent on climate change are needed, but for the public to choose them reliably requires the universal early teaching and learning of ecology.

Julian Caldecott | 28 Oct 2021

Keeping expectations realistic for COP26 in Glasgow

There are great expectations by governments, businesses, and civil society for the forthcoming Glasgow Climate Conference, or COP 26, as it’s known in the jargon. US Secretary of State John Kerry has...

Joanna Depledge | 26 Oct 2021

Liszt in Context

Even 135 years after his death, Liszt’s glamour continues to fascinate. He was the rock star of the nineteenth century, women swooning at his feet as he performed the most demanding music of his age with...

Joanne Cormac | 26 Oct 2021

Economics and Islam – it’s about Ethics, not Numbers

Often, we perceive economics as highly objective and functional science or system that is closely associated with material prosperity, economic development or progress, and consumption and transfer of...

Sami Al-Daghistani | 26 Oct 2021

A Q&A with Shawn Bayern, author of ‘Autonomous Organizations’

Q: What led you to start thinking about how software or robots might get legal personhood? A: It was two things, really. On one side, I started noticing that significant activities within existing...

Shawn Bayern | 25 Oct 2021