REVIVALISTICS: Why Should We Invest Time and Money in Reclaiming ‘Dead’ Languages?
By Ghil‘ad Zuckermann
This article introduces revivalistics, the new science behind language reclamation, revitalization and reinvigoration. It explores the various benefits of language revival.
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Afghan Women Have a Long History of Taking Leadership and Fighting for Their Rights
By Wazhmah Osman and Helena Zeweri
Ever since the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan, the question in much of the Western media has been, “What will happen...
Eternal Economic Return: The Global Economic Crisis through the Lens of History
By Larry Allen
Looking back at previous waves of economic crisis, economic historian Larry Allen illuminates our global predicament by uncovering the interlocked economic processes...
Beatrix Potter’s Famous Tales Are Rooted in Stories Told by Enslaved Africans – But...
By Emily Zobel Marshall
Peter Rabbit, the cute and wily bunny who wears a bright blue jacket, is the best-selling creation of English author Beatrix...
Sovereigns in the Courtroom: Is the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act the Golden Key?
By Kiran Nasir Gore and Charles H. Camp
How can a foreign sovereign be brought into an American courtroom to answer for its bad acts? This...
What’s a Laureate? a Classicist Explains the Word’s Roots in Ancient Greek Victors Winning...
By Joel Christensen
When the Nobel Prizes are handed out each year, honorees each receive a medal and monetary prize. Even in the absence of these material goods,...
How a Handful of Prehistoric Geniuses Launched Humanity’s Technological Revolution
By Nicholas R. Longrich
For the first few million years of human evolution, technologies changed slowly. Some three million years ago, our ancestors were making chipped...
The Bilderbergers in Switzerland
By Peter Koenig
The 67th Bilderberg Meeting will take place in Montreux, Switzerland from 30 May – 2 June 2019, where the about 130 invitees...
United Nations – Celebrating 70 Years of Human Rights – And Condoning 70 Years...
By Peter Koenig
On 14 of May 1948 – Israel declared unilaterally her independence in a foreign land, called Palestine, supported by a UN Resolution sponsored...
Ancient Amazons: Warrior Women in Myth and History
By Adrienne Mayor
In Greek myth, Amazons were fierce women of exotic lands who gloried in hunting and war. The greatest Greek heroes, Heracles and...
Rebuilding Infected Economies: Without Deficits, Debt or Taxes
By Dr Shann Turnbull
European national and local governments possess the power to rebuild their infected economies with self-liquidating “Stamp Scrip” money. This could be achieved...
Make it New: The History of Silicon Valley Design
By Barry M. Katz
Barry Katz’s book Make it New: The History of Silicon Valley Design sets out to answer the question of how “design”...
British Imperialism, Religion, and the Politics of ‘Divide and Rule’ in the Indian-Subcontinent
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
Recently India’s Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi again brought the issues of India’s partition and tried to blame it on...
Race and Caste: Worlds Apart But Closer Than You Think
By Rajesh Sampath
Combining historical knowledge and awareness of the present situation in America and India, one can deduce that racial and caste-based discrimination are...
Failed Statebuilding versus Peace Formation: The Consequences and Implications over the Last 25 Years
By Oliver P. Richmond
Recent years have seen an abundance of foreign intervention to achieve peace and statebuilding. Below, Oliver Richmond discusses how statebuilding...
The Coming War on China
By John Pilger
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression...
Adenomyosis: From Symptoms to Treatment, Two Women’s Health Experts Explain This Little Known Condition
By Jen and Nura
BBC presenter Naga Munchetty recently revealed that she suffers from adenomyosis, a chronic condition that affects the uterus. She spoke of how her pain...
Global Capitalism: Crisis of Humanity and the Specter of 21st Century Fascism
By William I. Robinson
World capitalism is experiencing the worst crisis in its 500 year history. Global capitalism is a qualitatively new stage in the...
Obituary: Bob Chitester – The man who explained capitalism and freedom to the world
By Dr. Rainer Zitelmann
Bob Chitester, 83, passed away after a seven-year battle with cancer. The Wall Street Journal described Bob Chitester as “the man who...
Japan’s “Comfort Women” Asian Protests and Imperial Japan’s Sexual Slavery
By Dan Steinbock
Recently, another Philippine statue commemorating Filipino “comfort women” has been removed. As international pressure is rising, it is time for Abe...
5 Drugs that Changed the World (and What Went Wrong)
By Philippa Martyr
It’s hard to measure the impact of any one drug on world history. But here are five drugs we can safely say...
The Origins of Business
By Keith Roberts
This essay outlines how business entities began and grew to become the recognizable ancestors of modern business. It suggests that deliberate innovation...
The US withdraws from Afghanistan after 20 years of war: 4 questions about this...
By Mark R. Jacobson
Mark R. Jacobson, a foreign policy expert at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, served in Afghanistan as a reserve officer...
Afghan Women’s Lives Are Now in Danger from The Taliban – But They Have...
By Jenevieve Mannell
The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban has undoubtedly put women’s lives in danger and threatened their human rights in new ways....
What moments of uncertainty mean for war – and peace – between global rivals
By Douglas B. Atkinson
The coronavirus pandemic has inflamed existing tensions between China and the US. China blamed the US for spreading the virus across international...
Assad Adviser Says We Are In A Time That Will Determine The Future Of...
By Brandon Turbeville
As the war in Syria continues to rage on, it is becoming more and more obvious that the battle taking place...
Lessons in Realpolitik from Nixon and Kissinger: Ideals Go Only so Far in Ending...
By Jeffrey Fields
The U.S. has limited options in confronting Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
The Biden administration’s strategy is moderated by what’s known as...
The Rationality of Risk, Part 3: Rollercoasters, Burning Ships and the Hero’s Journey
By Christopher Surdak
In part three of the series on The Rationality of Risk, Chris Surdak gives some guidance on making friends with risk. Loss,...
Where Have All the American Banks Gone?
By Robert E. Wright and Richard Sylla
With the evolution of banking over the years, many banks have flourished and declined in America. It has...
“Without Haste But Without Pause”: Cuba-US Relations in the Age of Obama
By John M. Kirk and Stephen Kimber
This article analyses the significance of the March 2016 visit to Cuba by President Barack Obama, assesses changes...
US-China History and Where We Are Today
By Ann Lee
The direction of US-China relations under the Trump Administration has been a popular topic of speculation. While forecasts are by definition a...
Nobel peace prize: hunger is a weapon of war but the World Food Programme...
By Susanne Jaspars
By awarding the 2020 Nobel peace prize to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), the Nobel committee said that it wanted to “turn the...
The Political Economy of Industrial Policy
By Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
This article aims to discuss industrial policy by focusing on a number of theoretical issues, in particular in relation to manufacturing and...
Reparations for slavery and colonial abuses: how behavioural science can help
By David Comerford
Germany has agreed to pay Namibia more than €1.1 billion (£940 million) in reparations for committing genocide during the colonial occupation of the country...
“Comfort Women” and History
By Dan Steinbock
Empirical evidence for the truth-seeking rationale for freedom of expression – the assertion that truth prevails in a free marketplace of ideas...
Tourism and the Modern World
By Eric G. E. Zuelow
Tourism is among the largest industries in the world and many people assume that humans engaged in leisure travel from...
How Centuries of Self-Isolation Turned Japan into One of the Most Sustainable Societies on...
By Dr. Hiroko Oe
At the start of the 1600s, Japan’s rulers feared that Christianity – which had recently been introduced to the southern parts...
How the shadow of slavery still hangs over global finance
By Philip Roscoe
When the infamous Zong trial began in 1783, it laid bare the toxic relationship between finance and slavery. It was an unusual and distressing...
Capitalism in Intensive Care
By Graham Vanbergen
As the COVID crisis grips the world economy, Graham Vanbergen concludes that capitalism itself has suffered a near-fatal heart attack and that the...
Anti-Asian racism during coronavirus: How the language of disease produces hate and violence
By Paula Larsson
Self-isolation. Quaratine. Lockdown. The outbreak of COVID-19 and its subsequent dissemination across the globe has left a shock wave of disbelief and confusion...
Agriculture, Sustainable Development, and Government Policy in Developing Countries
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
Bandung Conference (1955) in Indonesia was the first large meeting of leaders from newly independent countries from Asia and Africa,...
Is Democracy Sacred?
By Anthony D. Baker
With millions of votes yet to be counted and the election far from being decided, President Trump falsely claimed victory and called for a...
The Rise of the Chinese Economy and Growing Concerns in the United States
By Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
The article discusses recent global economic changes and will largely focus on two of the worlds’ largest economies, namely China and...
“Anti-Americanism” in the Philippines. President Duterte’s Subaltern Counter-Hegemony
By E. San Juan Jr.
Guerilla Incursions from the Boondocks
“A howling wilderness” was what General Jacob Smith ordered his troops to make of Samar, Philippines....
International Law in a Multipolar World
By Charles Camp And Theresa Bowman
From a bipolar world marked by the Cold War between the two major powers, the United States and the...
What are Iran’s Morality Police? A Scholar of the Middle East Explains their History
By Pardis Mahdavi
Until recently, most people outside of Iran had never heard of the country’s morality police, let alone followed their wider role in...
An African History of Cannabis Offers Fascinating and Heartbreaking Insights – An Expert Explains
By Chris S. Duvall
When I tell people that I research cannabis, I sometimes receive a furtive gesture that implies and presumes: “We’re both stoners!”,...
The China Model: A Civilizational-State Perspective
By Zhang Weiwei
China’s dramatic rise should be understood in the context of China as a civilizational state, i.e. an amalgam of the world’s oldest...
How the World Press Freedom Index Was Politicized – Long Before the New Cold...
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
For years, the press freedom index by the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has been widely quoted, even though its methodology is...
Know Your History! Why Historical Awareness Makes You a Better Leader
By David De Cremer
The truism that you learn from the past can be applied in almost all aspects of life, even in business so...
Friday Essay: How the West Discovered the Buddha
By Philip C. Almond
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Buddhism is the third largest (and fastest-growing) religion in Australia with approximately half a million adherents.
The celebration of the Buddha’s birthday...
Che – Viva! Hasta la Victoria Siempre!
By Peter Koenig
Moral consciousness is rising and the world owes it to the people who are standing up for the poor and powerless despite...
Usury in the 21st Century
By Richard Westra
Neoliberal deregulation commencing in the closing decades of the 20th century put into play a global financial system which operates as a...
Requiem for the Post-9/11 Wars, and those to Come
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
For days, international media have been promoting the 20-year anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. That day, I...
The Trend of History is Bigger than the Business Cycle
By Philip Auerswald
In March, 2009, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman posted to his blog a chart of US industrial production in 1929 and 1930 (the...
How British Imperial History Shaped Charles Iii’s Coronation Ceremony
By Sean Lang
The coronation ceremony Charles III is about to go through reflects how monarchy has developed since Saxon times, but it still carries...
The Story of Trump’s Perilous Iran Escalation
By Dan Steinbock
The Trump assassination of major general Qasem Soleimani reflects regime change efforts - withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal, new...
How Africa can Respond to the Seismic Changes in the World: Lessons from History
By John Stremlau
Fundamental changes are taking place in the world: what are the implications for Africa?
A generation ago, newly appointed Organisation of African Unity...
Most Notable Events in the History of the Stock Market
The stock market is often times associated with the 20th century, especially the late 20th century. When speaking about the 1980s, often times, we...
Refugees and Refugee Crises: Some Historical Reflections
By Peter Gatrell
The current Syrian refugee crisis provides an opportunity to look beyond the headlines and to locate it in a broader historical context....
The Dark Plight of Immigrants in the Racist Era of Trump
By Alvaro Huerta
This essay argues that President Donald J. Trump represents an existential threat to immigrants in the United States. Trump’s immigration rhetoric and...
9/11 Did Not Change the World – It Was Already on The Path to...
By Paul Rogers
The September 11 attacks in New York and Washington were visceral in their impact. In less than three hours, the twin towers of the...
Hong Kong and the Audacity of the United States
By Peter Koenig
People often ask and hint at the similarities between the Hong Kong protests and the French Yellow Vests. The former started on...
Why Men in 19th Century Wales Dressed as Women to Protest Taxation
By Lowri Ann Rees
South-west Wales was reeling in the wake of social unrest in November 1843. There had been a series of protests over...
Filming Genocide
By William Guynn
Film, with its tangible relationship to the world it “captures”, can offer us, in flashes of insight, an immediate and unexpected access...
The ‘Import-Substitution’ Policy in Post-colonial Countries: A Review
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
Post-colonial countries are those who were former colonies, and most of them, except China and those in East Asia, remain...
How the ‘Laws of War’ Apply to the Conflict Between Israel and Hamas
By Robert Goldman
The killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas and retaliatory airstrikes on the densely populated Gaza Strip by Israel raises numerous issues under international...
Two Hundred Years Of Talking About Climate Change
By Joseph Mazur
Back in the 1970s, when I was a graduate student at MIT, there were a few weeks of cafeteria conversations among earth...
Financial Oligarchy vs. Feudal Aristocracy
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh and Anthony A. Gabb
In this article the authors explore how modern capitalism mirrors the feudal system of centuries ago where today,...