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Episodes
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Towards a Polemical Ethics: Between Heidegger and Plato - Gregory Fried
Gregory Fried provides a novel way of understanding politics and ethical life he calls a polemical ethics, which mediates between finitude and transcendence by engaging in constructive confrontation with both traditions and other persons.
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Mandeville's Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability
Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. Focusing on Mandeville’s moral, social, and political ideas, Robin...
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Henry Brougham and the Invention of Cannes
When Henry Brougham, first Baron Brougham and Vaux, died in his villa in Cannes in May 1868 at the age of eighty-nine, he was well known for his many achievements in the fields of politics, law and education, and also as the man who put the Mediterranean town Cannes on the map. Rosemary Ashton...
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Globalization in question: why does engaged theory matter?
Paul James discusses the significance of engaged globalization theory and critical reflexivity and the development of an integrated method of analysis.
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British Engagement with Japan, 1854–1922
Anthony Best discusses the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only recently emerged from self-imposed isolation.
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Can the Liberal Order be Sustained? Nations, Network Effects, and the Erosion of Global Institutions
A growing retreat from multilateralism is threatening to upend the institutions that underpin the liberal international order. Bryan H. Druzin applies network theory to this crisis in global governance, arguing that policymakers can strengthen these institutions by leveraging network effect...
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Women in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War
Jeremy Crang traces the wartime history of the WAAF, ATS and WRNS and the integration of women into the British armed forces.
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Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Felipe Fernández-Armesto untangles the myths that made Magellan a hero.
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Making a Modern U.S. West
Sarah Deutsch surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940. Centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region—the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders—Deutsch attends to the region’s role in constructing U.S. racial formations and argues that the...
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The Meaning of 'Life' in Early Modern Philosophy
Deborah Brown suggests René Descartes philosophy recognises irreducible composites that resist reduction, and require their own distinctive modes of explanation
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Unaccompanied Children in American-Occupied Germany
Among the hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II, approximately 40,000 were unaccompanied children. Lynne Taylor discusses the heated battles that erupted amongst the various entities (military, governments, and NGOs) responsible for children's care and...
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Human Rights and Homelessness in the Neoliberal Age
Anne O'Brien discusses two moments of human rights advocacy for those experiencing homelessness; the Burdekan report on homeless children and the opposition to the Howard government erosion of democratic norms.
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Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter
Thomas Irvine discusses how the sonic encounter with China shaped perceptions of Europe’s own musical development.
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Statistics and Scientific Method
Peter Diggle discusses how core statistical ideas of experimental design, modelling, and data analysis are integral to the scientific method.
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What is Spatial History?
Riccardo Bavaj introduces and discusses spatial history through the lens of the different primary sources that historians use
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Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
Paul Cartledge discusses the differences and the interconnections between the Thebes of myth and the Thebes of history.
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Sounds of Liberty: Music, radicalism and reform in the Anglophone world
Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, Paul Pickering explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance
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Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge
Over the past century, while democratic governments have become more efficient, they have also become more disconnected from the people they purport to represent. John Matsusaka discusses how direct democracy can bring policies back in line with the will of the people.populism
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Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin
As a French artist who lived in Polynesia, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) occupies a crucial position in histories of European primitivism. Linda Goddard discusses his wide-ranging literary output, which included journalism, travel writing, art criticism, and essays on aesthetics, religion, and politics.
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James and His Striped Velvet Pantaloons
The striped velvet pantaloons of James, an enslaved man in the South Carolina upcountry, might not seem like an important legal artifact, but they are. Laura F. Edwards discusses how the legalities of textiles recast our understanding of Americans’ relationship to law and the economy in the…
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Renaissance Woman
Ramie Targoff discusses Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance.
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British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime
Beryl Pong discusses British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future.
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The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry
Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington discuss Australian prose poetry written over the last fifty years.
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Civil Unrest
Artist Si Sapsford discusses her new book which looks at the installation of her mechanical piece Civil Unrest.
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War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Margaret MacMillan discusses the tangled history of war and society and our complicated feelings towards it and towards those who fight. MacMillan explores the ways in which changes in society have affected the nature of war and how in turn wars have changed the societies that fight them…
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The Social Leap
In The Social Leap, William von Hippel lays out this revolutionary hypothesis, tracing human development through three critical evolutionary inflection points to explain how events in our distant past shape our lives today. From the mundane, such as why we exaggerate, to the surprising, such as…
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Covid-19 across European Regions: the Role of Border Controls
Attempts to constrain the spread of Covid-19 included the temporal reintroduction of travel restrictions and border controls within the Schengen area. While such restrictions clearly involve costs, their benefits have been disputed. Using a new set of daily regional data of confirmed Covid-19…
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Re-creation, Fragmentation, and Resilience
Re-Creation, Fragmentation, and Resilience tells the story of post Second World War Canada by exploring ten themes key to the Canadian experience since 1945. Dimitry Anastakis helps students to look at the period not only through the lens of traditional themes such a politics and foreign policy,...
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Global virus outbreaks: Interferons as 1st responders
Outbreaks of severe virus infections with the potential to cause global pandemics are increasing. In many instances these outbreaks have been newly emerging (SARS coronavirus), re-emerging (Ebola virus, Zika virus) or zoonotic (avian influenza H5N1) virus infections. In the absence of a targeted...
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The 99 Percent Economy
We live in a time of crises - economic turmoil, workplace disempowerment, unresponsive government, environmental degradation, social disintegration, and international rivalry. In The 99 Percent Economy, Paul S. Adler, a leading expert on business management, argues that these crises are destined…
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Kosovo Divided: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Struggle for a State
Marius Calu investigates how the management of plurality is a fundamental element of contemporary state-building seeking to build social cohesion, while for the new-born Kosovo it stands as vital symbol for its domestic sovereignty and legitimisation. https://faculti.net/kosovo-divided/
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Privatisation of police: Themes from Australia
Rick Sarre discusses the relationship between the private sector and criminal justice. The private sector has become an increasingly important 'partner' in contemporary criminal justice with the unprecedented growth of public sector 'outsourcing' arrangements. This has resulted in an increasingly...
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Problematic Interactive Media Use Among Children and Adolescents
Problematic interactive media use (PIMU) is a real and growing health problem among children and adolescents of the digital age. In the digital age, we may have encountered a new pathology, or group of pathologies, to which we must develop a thoughtful, responsive, and structured systemic…
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National indifference and the return of Alsace to France
Alison Carrol examines French policies to reintegrate the recovered region of Alsace into France after the First World War. As integration programs became increasingly contentious, administrators sent from Paris to Alsace read the situation through the lens of German influence. No French...
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The role of grammar in the writing curriculum
For most Anglophone countries, the history of grammar teaching over the past 50 years is one of contestation, debate and dissent: and 50 years on we are no closer to reaching a consensus about the role of grammar in the English/Language Arts curriculum. Debra Myhill discusses differing…
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The physiological response to drawing and its relation to attention and relaxation
Gareth Loudon discusses the physiological response of participants during a creative activity and compares the results to their physiological response during states of high attention and relaxation.
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Heterogeneous middle-class and disparate educational advantage
The heterogeneity of the contemporary Indian middle-class has been discussed widely. However, the effect of its internal differences on the distribution of educational resources needs to be examined systematically. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with parents in 53 middle-class families in...
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Freedom, Regulation, and Public Policy
Mark Pennington explores the relationship between freedom, regulation, and public policy. Adopting a “non-ideal” approach, he argues that there is no necessary connection between different conceptions of liberty and any particular sort of regulatory/public policy framework. Both negative and...
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Gypsy and Traveller Girls: Silence, Agency and Power
Geetha Marcus presents the untold stories of Gypsy and Traveller girls living in Scotland. Drawing on accounts of the girls’ lives and offering space for their voices to be heard, the author addresses contemporary and traditional stereotypes and racialised misconceptions of Gypsies and…
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Political polarization and environmental attitudes
There is evidence that in the United States popular attitudes about environmental problems have been shaped by elite polarization on environmental issues. Yet there has been little systematic analysis of the impact of elite polarization on environmental attitudes in other parts of the world.…
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Barack Obama and the Return of ‘Declinism’
Andrew Moran considers the claim that ‘change’ during the Obama years amounted to an acceptance of American global decline. It contends that sensible retrenchment should not be equated with ‘decline.’
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Factors Affecting Kenyan Secondary Teachers’ Technology Integration
Teaching is a complex practice that requires teachers to draw upon their content knowledge, pedagogical approaches and strategies, and knowledge about learners in order to support learning. Integrating technology into the teaching and learning practice of a classroom is a strategy that many...
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Let no man write my epitaph
For centuries elegy has been instrumental to Irish culture and its self-expression. Alison Morgan discusses the elegies both by and about Robert Emmet written by Thomas Moore, Robert Southey and Percy Bysshe Shelley as well those written by anonymous balladeers.
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On Cumbrian alchemy
Robert Williams discusses how art investigates the nuclear Anthropocene, nuclear sites and materiality and the philosophical concept of radiation as a hyperobject.
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Understanding Social Preferences
Departures from self-interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of “social preferences.” Gary Charness discusses a range of simple experimental games that test these theories more directly than existing experiments. Experiments show that subjects are more concerned with...
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Ex‐military CEOs and financial misconduct
CEOs who formerly served in the U.S. military are prevalent among U.S. firms. The military puts strong emphasis on the obedience of its personnel. Georg Wernicke discusses time spent in the military leads individuals to be more obedient to rules and regulations in the years after they have left…
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Pro-business degrowth
Thomas Roulet discusses three “degrowth”-oriented strategies that companies can pursue to open new opportunities while benefitting the environmen. Dr Thomas Roulet, University Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory & Information Systems at Cambridge Judge Business School. Companies can apply...
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Dynamic Models of Language Evolution: The Economic Perspective
The economics of language may not yet be a mainstream subfield of economics. In this interview, Andrew John discusses the following questions: how do economic analysis and economic reasoning provide insight into linguistic phenomena? How does economics and economic models shed light on language...
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Ways Your Child Can Get the Best Out of School
Adrian Piccoli discusses Ways Your Child Can Get the Best Out of School. The Honorable Adrian Piccoli served as a Member of NSW Parliament for 19 years and as the NSW Minister for Education for 6 years from 2011 until 2017. Mr Piccoli is currently the Director of UNSW’s Gonski Institute for...
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Range of outcomes reported in kidney transplantation trials
Anthony Warrens discusses the range of outcomes reported in kidney transplantation trials. Anthony Warrens is Dean for Education and Director of the Institute of Health Sciences Education (IHSE) at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry (Barts). He is a practising consultant renal...
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