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Philip Cunliffe
The National Interest

With peak globalization behind us, we urgently need a new debate about the national interest. Yet across the West it is a concept that is conspicuous by its absence from public life. All too often the 'na…

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Deborah Cameron
The Rise of Dogwhistle Politics

The term dogwhistle, meaning a political message with a hidden or coded meaning, only entered mainstream usage in the mid-1990s, but today it seems to be everywhere. Accusations of dogwhistling fly in eve…

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Andrea Lorenzo Capussela
The Republic of Innovation

We cling to a distorted idea of freedom. To be free, we commonly think, means to be unconstrained. This widespread belief makes our societies less fair, as it fails to confront that freedom to act can mea…

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Ross Carroll
Edmund Burke

Few thinkers have provoked such violently opposing reactions as Edmund Burke. A giant of eighteenth-century political and intellectual life, Burke has been praised as a prophet who spied the terror latent…

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Ross Carroll
Edmund Burke

Few thinkers have provoked such violently opposing reactions as Edmund Burke. A giant of eighteenth-century political and intellectual life, Burke has been praised as a prophet who spied the terror latent…

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Aime Cesaire,
Toussaint Louverture

This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire's account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue - a slave revolt against French colonial ru…

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Rebecca Charbonneau
Mixed Signals

In the shadow of the Cold War, whispers from the cosmos fuelled an unlikely alliance between the US and USSR. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (or SETI) emerged as a foundational field of radi…

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Rachel Hope Cleves
Lustful Appetites

We take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplant emoji and a suggestive wink. But why does it feel so …

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Ben Cobley
The Progress Trap

The idea of progress, one of the animating ideas of Western civilization, has now gone global. From Marxism and neoliberalism to today's mutant identity politics, it offers a framework of knowledge and co…

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Alan M S J Coffee
Wollstonecraft

Famous as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft was a wide-ranging and controversial moral and political philosopher. She engaged with many of the most polarising issues …

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Alan M S J Coffee
Wollstonecraft

Famous as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft was a wide-ranging and controversial moral and political philosopher. She engaged with many of the most polarising issues …

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J Michael Cole
The Taiwan Tinderbox

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world and overturned assumptions that large-scale conventional war was inconceivable in the 21st century. On the other side of the planet, democra…

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Raewyn Connell
Trans Lives

Trans people have been thrust into the spotlight in recent years across the world as never before. Trans groups have become targets of intense online abuse and hostile political and religious campaigns. T…

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Alain Corbin,
Fragility

The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time - the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms o…

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Alain Corbin,
Fragility

The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time - the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms o…

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Nick Couldry
The Space of the World

"Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become our "space of the world" - the highly art…

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Philippe Descola,
Forms of the Visible

Imagery and figuration are not just figments of an artist's imagination. Perception and imagination are always shaped by what habit has taught us to discern. The visual path we spontaneously trace through…

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Jan Van Dijk
Power and Technology

The definition of power varies across disciplines. Social scientists tend to deal with social power, philosophers of technology with the relation between technology and society, and ecologists with the re…

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Jan Van Dijk
Power and Technology

The definition of power varies across disciplines. Social scientists tend to deal with social power, philosophers of technology with the relation between technology and society, and ecologists with the re…

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Jacob Dlamini
Dying for Freedom

What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one's commitment to one's freedom? What happens when the opposite of freedom is not unfreedom but death, not slavery but mortality? How are we to thi…

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