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22/09/2016 - 15:15

On almost every page of Sapiens, a bible of mankind’s cultural and economic and philosophical evolution, our millennial battles with plague... →

02/08/2016 - 13:31

“Ghetto” is never strident or even particularly argumentative. Nonetheless, its story repeatedly emphasizes the failures of the apolitical... →

04/07/2016 - 12:10

Wiesel, he added, helped the world realize that “ultimately we are not talking about an abstract history” but rather about very real human... →

27/05/2016 - 13:14

Because passion, not reason, has largely driven the debate, too little attention has been paid to a number of serous scholarly works and... →

22/05/2016 - 14:35

The different response by two different governments to the phenomenon of popular protest is reflected across the world. It does not just... →

16/05/2016 - 13:35

For readers unacquainted with the history of American foreign policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Thompson’s work... →

29/04/2016 - 14:07

That history had mostly been brushed over, and remnants of Jewish life disappeared. In Lviv, the surviving two walls of the 16th-century... →

25/04/2016 - 13:48

Yet, quite surprisingly, the idea of liberal education has taken on new salience in the global higher education debate. This has occurred... →

19/04/2016 - 14:22

Breaking the taboo would entail coping with a different collective memory, as well as recognizing that Nazism was much more than the enemy... →

19/04/2016 - 14:08

Though Judaism, Christianity and Islam all consider the Temple Mount to be a holy site, the UNESCO resolution referred to the area... →

12/04/2016 - 13:00

In an attempt to explain why so many Jewish leaders were being fired, arrested or executed between 1948 and 1953, the articles were filled... →

27/03/2016 - 16:15

The first Maya sites were built during the first millennium BC, and the civilisation reached its height around AD600. (In the chronology of... →

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