Clik here to view.
Why Does the Law Obligate?
How can the edicts of a sovereign power—monarch, democratic assembly, or other institutional arrangements—succeed to engender obligations for a multitude of subjects, most of whom hardly know (let...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace
Artificial intelligence (A-I) gathers and analyzes huge troughs of data to recognize patterns and predict future behavior. This is accomplished by creating algorithms that attempt to model high-level...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Barn Owls: Evolution and Ecology – Why has the barn owl been so successful in...
Why were these 17 species such successful colonisers in contrast to most other birds? Most cosmopolitan birds exploit water environments and because there is water everywhere, with continents...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Milton and the Burden of Freedom
What I’ve found in teaching Milton is that an author, whom students at first think of as inaccessible, because his poems are full of Biblical and classical references, familiar to his initial readers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shuri Castle and Controversial Heritage in Japan
On 31 October, 2019, a massive fire tore through the UNESCO World Heritage site of Shuri Castle in Okinawa, sparking a global reaction and comparisons with the devastating fire at Notre Dame, another...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Make Strange Familiar Evidence
For almost 30 years, anthropology has been undergoing its own culture wars. Anthropologists don’t know what to do with biological anthropologists as recent as 2010. Biological anthropologists are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cannibals: When England Became Imperial
Why put a Native American object on the cover of a book about Jacobean politics? The image that appears on the cover of The Making of an Imperial Polity is a headdress from Guiana (now Guyana), a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Literature, Spoken Language and Speaking Skills in Second Language Learning
What’s the big question you are trying to tackle and to what extent will Literature, Spoken Language and Speaking Skills lead to new avenues of enquiry? I am interested in how we can best understand...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who’s Afraid of Religious Experience?
Whatever else religious experience is, it is experience, and it should be assessed accordingly. It is not a belief, a theory, or a creed. Instead, it is a kind of awareness that attracts one’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Violence, past and present
In my recent Cambridge University Press book, A Renaissance of Violence, I document a frightening rise in civil violence in the Italian city of Bologna in the seventeenth century. I show how what began...
View Article