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This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the
Scientist Alfred Kinsey tried to differentiate human sexualities on a seven-point scale. In so doing
In this episode of High Theory, Eli Cook tells us about choice architecture. The term was invented b
Ben Dodds, of the University of Florida, talks with Jana Byars about his new book, Myths and Memorie
Faith Fulfilled: Megillat Esther and Ma'ariv Evening Service for Purim (Urim Publications, 2022) pre
In Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature (Ohio State UP, 2022),
From the 1950s to the 1970s, Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia's most exemplary Cold Warriors a
'How do gender constructions transform religious experiences?' 'What is the role of bodily materiali
Since the late twentieth century, the Venetian courtesan Veronica Franco has been viewed as a triump
The emergence of Haiti as a sovereign Black nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people throughout
Supremacists imagine that Jews and Muslims secretly strive to replace white, European civilization w
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan traces the shared intellectual and political history of computer scienti
Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) was a British historian who was deeply shaken by the Great War (1914-
What is the nature of language? This is the question that Nathan Vedal’s book, The Culture of Langua
Long neglected in mainstream history books, the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) is now being claimed
Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple (University of Chicago
What will the future bring? The ancient astrologer turned the impulse to answer this question into s
Buddhists are famous for their thesis that selves do not exist. But if they are right, what would th
"Why do we think about some practices as work, and not others? Why do we classify certain capacities
By examining the writings of twentieth-century thinkers such as Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Norbert
