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In Rethinking Japan’s Modernity, M. William Steele takes a new look at the people, places, and events associated with Japan’s engagement with... Læs mere
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Between 1555 and 1870, papal authorities created legal roadblocks to keep Rome’s ghetto-bound Jews from obtaining kosher meat.... Læs mere
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With Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the... Læs mere
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Jonathan Lear’s insightful meditation joins the end of the world to the end—that is, the purpose—of living. How to persist in the face of planetary... Læs mere
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College still looks like it did a century ago, with instructors delivering lectures to silent rows of students. Yet research shows unambiguously that active learning is more... Læs mere
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Does class determine economic options, or is class in our heads—a matter of interpreting symbols and meanings? Cultural theorists have made the... Læs mere
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Shinichi Suzuki, of the eponymous Suzuki Method, debunked Western stereotypes about “authentic” classical performance while transforming... Læs mere
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The 1980s saw spirited debate in China, as officials and the public pressed for economic and political liberalization. But after Tiananmen,... Læs mere
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Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by donning hijabs.... Læs mere
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Success is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of four thinkers who, for all their... Læs mere
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On Leaders and Tyrants contains works, the majority by Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini, relating to a debate on Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar that discusses tyranny,... Læs mere
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Paul Kosmin argues that the coast—not individual shores, but the coast as such—was fundamental to ancient history. The social and natural dynamics of the coast profoundly shaped not... Læs mere