J. William Fulbright: Scholarships and Soft Power

J. William Fulbright: Scholarships and Soft P...

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Robots and reality

Are we entering an era when robots will finally liberate people, and particularly women, from the drudgery of housework? There is certainly a buzz around domestic robots right now and every month seems to bring us a new autonomous machine that can fold your clothes or stack your ...  Afficher plus

Weddings: Romance and ritual

One of the first recorded examples of a marriage ceremony is dated more than 4000 years ago in Mesopotamia. And it seems that through the ages, weddings have never lost their appeal. The global wedding industry is today worth billions of dollars, and it is one that keeps on growi ...  Afficher plus

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Stephen Bright and James Forman Jr.
Great Podversations

This conversation features renowned lawyer and Professor of Law at Yale and Georgetown Universities, Stephen Bright, interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-winner and Yale Law Professor James Forman Jr. They discuss Bright’s book, “The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Pers ...  Afficher plus

Book at Lunchtime: Iconoclasm as Child's Play
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Dr Joseph Moshenska, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College, discusses his new book, Iconoclasm as Child's Play. Drawing on a range of sixteenth-century artifacts, artworks, and texts, as well as on ancient and modern theories of iconoclasm and of play, Ico ...  Afficher plus

325. The Downfall of the Ivy League | Victor Davis Hanson
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

Dr Jordan B Peterson and Victor Davis Hanson discuss the state of Ivy League universities, the rise of administrative exploitation, and the cost of our institutions losing credibility.   Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, ...  Afficher plus

Karen Gram-Skjoldager et al., "Organizing the 20th-Century World: International Organizations and the Emergence of International Public Administration, 1920-1960s" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
New Books in National Security

The history of international organizations has been an exciting area of research in recent years, with such landmark studies as Stephen Wertheim’s Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy and Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determi ...  Afficher plus