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Has Christian philosophy been having it too easy? Over the last 50 years, Christian philosophy has ballooned into by far the largest interest area in the philosophy of religion. The Society...

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How to co-write a book 3,000 miles apart: In Dialogue with Dickens RB lives outside Boston in the United States, PD across the Mersey from Liverpool, England. We have never met in person. ...

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The US South: A deadly front during World War II The US Army recently gave a full military funeral to Albert King, a Black soldier killed by a white military police officer in 1941; Charles...

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The Alexander Mosaic: Greek history and Roman memories Perhaps the finest representation of battle to survive from antiquity, the Alexander Mosaic conveys all the confusion and violence of ...

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Forgotten books and postwar Jewish identity In recent years, Americans have reckoned with a rise in antisemitism. Since the 2016 presidential election, antisemitism exploded online and ente...

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How well do you know Shakespeare’s plays? Brush up on your Shakespeare with our quiz! OUPblog - Academic insights for the thinking world.

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Do American family names make sense? Do names really mean anything, even when they seem to? Individuals in present day America called Smith, Jackson, Washington, or Redhead are not usually ...

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Society was to blame for the letters, not twisted psychologies In complex ways, social inequalities create the conditions for people to feel that writing anonymously might be useful for the...

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Jonah and genre Reading a piece of writing—from instruction manual, to sports page, to Op-Ed piece—according to its genre is something we do so naturally that it seems odd to even talk...

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Philosophers don’t often write about the heart The Heart and Its Attitudes illuminates interpersonal phenomena that are as local and commonplace as heartfelt connections and their rupture...

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England and Egypt in the early middle ages: the papal connection When the Venerable Bede (d. 735) looked out from his Tyneside monastery across the North Sea, over the harbour at Jarrow Sla...

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Thinking disobediently? A person who “thinks disobediently” can be invigorating, maddening, or both. The life and writings of Henry David Thoreau have provoked just such mixed reactions...

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Why decolonization and inclusion matter in linguistics As sociolinguists, we have centered social justice in our research, teaching, and administrative work for many years. But as with many...

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Conversations with Dostoevsky The first time I visited St Petersburg, nearly thirty years ago, I stayed not far from the area in which Dostoevsky set the action of Crime and Punishment. The...

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Does doctrine have a future in Christianity? Why did Christianity develop doctrines in the first four centuries of its existence? After all, no other religion or worldview of late classical...

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How well do you know your ancient Greek literature? From Homer to Euripides, ancient Greek literature has an abundance in poetry, prose and plays – but how well do you think you know the...

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Awkward? We’d better own it We live in a golden age of awkwardness. Or so we’re told, by everyone from The Washington Post to Modern Dog Magazine. But we always have. A 1929 Life Magazi...

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Music Publishing: Looking to the Future Music publishing is an exciting and fast-paced industry touching all our lives, whether as performers, composers, or music lovers listening in the ca...

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Alice Mustian’s scandalous backyard performance The year 1614 was an eventful one for the London theatre world. Shakespeare’s Globe playhouse, rebuilt after having burned to the ground ...

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Explore the history of Asia in ten stops Embark on a captivating journey through pieces of the rich tapestry of Asian history with this interactive map of reading suggestions. Within these...

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Beyond God and atheism One of the most remarkable findings of recent science is that the fundamental constants of nature appear to be fine-tuned for the existence of life. Some think the fi...

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Unheard voices: overcoming barriers in women’s music composition Until recently, women were regularly dismissed as unable to compose music. In 1894, the French physician Havelock Ellis sa...

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How well do you know fantasy literature? Are you an avid fantasy fiction reader, or are you new to the world of dragons, mythic quests and magical worlds? Either way, test your knowledge of...

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Homer’s Penelope and the myth of the ‘model military wife’ Ostensibly a tale of the adventures of a soldier, Homer’s ancient Greek epic Odyssey also has at its heart the remarkable ...

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Written in the stars: Prince Hal’s almanac Prince Hal addresses Poins in the Boar’s Head Tavern in William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV, exclaiming “Saturn and Venus this year in conjun...

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