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Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Mitchel P. Roth and Dr.
Waging and winning a nuclear war have been called “thinking about the unthinkable” but that’s exactl
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (UCL Press, 2024) by Dr. Elena Borisova
The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics.
The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious
How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do such e
Jane-Marie Collins's book Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-188
For Kahane, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the black nationalist, the greatest enemy of the
A number of converts to Buddhism report paranormal experiences. Their accounts describe psychic abil
This week, Modya and David explore the double parsha that ends the book of Numbers (Bamidbar). They
Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular
Catherine Segurson is the founding editor of Catamaran. She’s a painter, videographer and creative w
The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of clov
LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED: The topic of today’s episode is human trafficking and crimes against
The idiom of contemporary politics is a kind of philosophical hodge-podge. While there’s plenty of t
In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their depe
Will Africa’s increasingly youthful population lead to new democratic and development breakthroughs?
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate
Jessica Henry's Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened (U Californ
Originally published in Polish in 2019 by The Lethe Foundation, Humanism As Realism: Three Essays Co
