This is a guest post by Glenn Fosbraey, author of Reading Song Lyrics: An Interdisciplinary and Multimodal Approach In today’s world, where streaming services allow us instant access to pretty much every song ever recorded, I like to keep certain…
Why Politicians Moralise and Citizens Follow Suit: The Moral Dimensions of Politics
This is a guest post by Ulf Hedetoft, author of The Morality of Politics: States, Honour and War Today everyone is a moralist. Citizens as well as politicians routinely draw lines between good and bad, between who they side with…
The Gothic Western on Screen
This is an author interview by Keith McDonald and Wayne Johnson, authors of The Spectral West: Super-Nature and the Gothic and the Western Film Q1. What was the importance of writing this book now? The Western has always been cyclical…
Mourning the Dissolution of the Monasteries
This is a guest post by Lisa Hopkins, author of Bare Ruined Choirs: Sacred Spaces in Four Early Modern Plays When Shakespeare writes in Sonnet 73 of ‘Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang’, he was referring to…
Why did Russell abandon his 1913 Theory of Knowledge manuscript?
This is a guest post by James R. Connelly, author of Wittgenstein’s Critique of Russell’s Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement In May–June 1913, Bertrand Russell wrote roughly 350 pages of a draft manuscript provisionally titled Theory of Knowledge. His goal…
A Strong, Stable and Prosperous Africa Benefits the Entire World
This is a guest post by Loic De Canniere, author of The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare In 2025, eleven of the world’s twenty fastest-growing economies are in sub-Saharan Africa – including South Sudan and…