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…
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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…
Tackling the Challenges of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
This is a guest post by Jamey M. Long and Joseph A. Pisani, authors of The Responsibility of Reason in Leadership, Management, and Life Long Learning Emotions affect stakeholders throughout an organisation. How we can understand and manage emotions becomes…
Finding Oneself in Art’s Visionary Moment
This is a guest post by Sidney Homan, author of Art’s Visionary Moment I speak here only for myself, not out of modesty or even a fear of generalization, but because I have had increasing doubts about the value of…
Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Others
This is a guest post by Constantine Sandis, author of Wittgenstein on Other Minds: Strangers in a Strange Land If some people looked like elephants and others like cats, or fish, one wouldn’t expect them to understand each other and…
A long-term view of feelings about immigrants
This is a guest post by Ben Braber, author of Changes in Attitudes to Immigrants in Britain, 1921-2021: From Alien to Migrant The public debate about immigration is raging in Britain and abroad, but English language use keeps changing. That…
The Power of Literature: ‘Colette and the Incest Taboo’
This is a guest post by Carol Mastrangelo Bové, author of Colette and the Incest Taboo. Julia Kristeva’s book Colette sparked my interest in an author I had not understood when I first read her decades ago. So literary critics…
The Second Cold War and Beyond
This is a guest post by Richard Sakwa, author of The Culture of the Second Cold War Three decades ago, we believed that the era of the Cold War had come to an end. How wrong we were. The style…
Farewell Oppenheimer
This is a guest post by Peder Anker, author of For The Love of Bombs It is often said that history is written by its winners, and the history of the atomic bomb is no exception. From 6 August 1945…