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In Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body (Duke UP, 2020), Ri
For much of his life, the Roman philosopher Boethius was exceptionally fortunate. But towards the en
Who are America's creationists? What do they want? Why do they think Jesus rode around on a dinosaur
Today I talked to Jame Malinson about The Amṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla: The Earliest Texts of the
It’s difficult to criticise science from the left. Right-wingers attack science and liberals defend
In this episode of High Theory, Laura Stokes talks about melancholy. One of the four humors in ancie
In 1818, the East India Company defeated the Maratha confederacy, acquiring vast domains in central
Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South (Ibidem Press, 2022) scrutinizes c
Aimé Césaire was born in 1913 on the island of Martinique, which was colonized by the French in the
The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, on
Is Marx relevant today, after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe? Is Marx’s political theor
The notion of freedom and how to ensure it for all has occupied the minds of many modern thinkers. I
In Heathen: Religion and Race in American History (Harvard University Press, 2022), Kathryn Gin Lum
Jeremy Duperteis Bangs, a leading expert in the history of the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony, over
Since the 1980s the study of genocide has exploded, both historically and geographically, to encompa
Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid clima
The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not a blip or an aberration. It was the l
It is traditional to think we should praise Abraham for his willingness to sacrifice his son as proo
Beginning in the 17th century, European countries began colonizing countries east of Europe. They im
Which rules do we obey and which ones can we find a way around? What distinctions can be drawn betwe
