I return from an intense, heart-warming tour of Kolkata, a city I have long admired and whose warmth embraced me again. This ...

"Prefiguring, contextualising and perhaps demonstrating Borges’ vision of a both Modernist and Argentine tradition" - Sarah Crooks presents an exceptional analysis of modernism, the Argentine ...

The World Bank’s latest economic update for the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAAP) arrives with ...

With the fast-growing trend of democratization of forestry coupled with the commodification of forest produce and apparent undermining of eco-services that are often difficult to quantify in monetary ...

Can institutional objects be identified with physical objects that have been ascribed status functions, as advocated by John Searle in The Construction of Social Reality (1995)? The paper argues that ...

What if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails? Big things are made of smaller things, and those smaller things are made of smaller things still. That’s reductionism in ...

When Donald Trump speaks about the economy, he sounds like a child. China gives us billions of dollars via tariffs. American auto workers take imported cars out of a box and stick the pieces together.

Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by Camelia Dewan, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022; pp 254, $105. Climate change is a “spice ...

Dr Goodwin has previously argued (see article in the American Journal of Psychiatry) that the proven benefits of psilocybin were studied when the substance was paired with “psychological support” and ...

In the extraordinary heat of July 2023, the planet perhaps experienced its hottest month in the past 120,000 years. Vast swathes of the world from the U.S. to China endured searing heat waves driven ...

Today’s conversation around inequality traces back to the compromises made in the late civil rights movement. The landmark civil rights victories of the mid-1960s—the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the ...