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Who Am I?
One of the problems of having lived a long life is that it brings home to one the many different identities one has occupied in the...
Edward Lucie-Smith
4 min read
The Politics of NHS Spending
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was set up in 1948 following the 1942 Beveridge report, a cross-party report which established its...
Fatima Osman
6 min read
Making BBC Four’s African Renaissance: In Conversation with Russell Barnes and Clare Burns
Russell Barnes is a Director and Producer for the documentary production company ClearStory. Clare Burns has worked in television...
Helen Grant
10 min read
In the Wake of Colston: Wake Work after Woke Work
What does it mean to defend the dead? To tend to the Black dead and dying: to tend to the Black person, to Black people, always living in...
Jacob Badcock and Jovan Owusu-Nepaul
19 min read
Traversing the Art Legal System in Early Modern Venice: The Case of Antonio Floriano’s Mappamondo
The application of print privilege (pre-copyright) legislation to Venetian cartography came about by chance.[1] While the Venetian...
Sarah Alexis Rabinowe
26 min read
Art and Arbitration: In Conversation with Camilla Perera-de Wit and Bert Demarsin
Camilla Perera-de Wit is the Secretary-General and Director-General of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI). Her previous...
Elliot Wright
8 min read
Justice Must Be Seen to Be Done
A central image in the consideration of law is the totemic figure of justice—Justitia—the blindfolded Roman goddess of justice. Often...
Carey Young
6 min read
Cultural Appropriation: A Gap in the Law?
The Jamaican Jerk seasoning. Halloween. Kendall Jenner’s new Tequila brand. The mascot of the Washington Redskins. Rugby. Victoria’s...
Mirjam Dietrich
14 min read
Americanitis: Architecture, Mass Media, White Supremacy
The origins and definition of the word ‘Americanitis’ are opaque at best. It is generally believed to have appeared in medical journals...
Nicolas Canal Tinius
15 min read
Bronzino’s Panciatichi and the Petrarchan Ideal
Fig 1. Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (Bronzino 1545, oil on panel, 102 x 85cm). Uffizi, Florence. Wikimedia Commons....
Ruairi Smith
4 min read
Mad Genius: Art, Illness, and Recovery
Art historians and psychologists alike have long been fascinated by the tentative relationship between art and mental illness. A number...
Amelia Bateman and Lucy De-Rhune
11 min read
The Space Race and Its Discontents: Hannah Arendt on Space, 1951-63
Introduction Arendt’s account of modernity and The Human Condition (1958)[1] Opening the final section of The Human Condition...
Clare Francis
20 min read
Copyright Law between Art and the Internet: In Conversation with Professor Andreas Rahmatian
Professor Andreas Rahmatian is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Glasgow School of Law. Originally from Vienna, he...
Thomas Hood
22 min read
Augustine on Canonical Penance: An Ethic of Criminal Sentencing
Introduction Canonical Penance in the early Church and the modern concept of prison, broadly construed, are both processes of...
Alexander Levy
21 min read
Does the Concept of ‘Spiritual Resistance’ Add to our Understanding of Jewish Life in the Ghettos?
In his seminal 1961 work The Destruction of the European Jews , Raul Hilberg proposed a thesis that sought to explain a perceived lack of...
Nathaniel Rachman
23 min read
Elite Overproduction: An Inside Perspective
1 To become an administrative official in imperial China necessitated following a burdensome path from an early age. To begin with, a...
Jakob Gomolka
10 min read
Painting through Doubt and Despair: In Conversation with Maggi Hambling
Maggi Hambling CBE is a painter and sculptor. Subjects for many of her paintings are the sea and the dead. Her sculptures are famous and...
Alexander (Sami) Kardos-Nyheim
2 min read
A Queer Theory Reading of Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Elizabeth Susan Wahl suggests that during the eighteenth century, homosexual relations between women became an ‘open secret’ that was...
Lily-Rose Morris-Zumin
6 min read
Patriarchy and Politics: In Conversation with Professor Cynthia Enloe
Well-known for her book Bananas, Beaches and Bases , exposing the embedded systemic and institutionalised patriarchy that is evident not...
Teresa Turkheimer
13 min read
The Role of Architecture in International Law
Turrets and spires tower over rich façades and stained-glass windows. Ornate vases sprout up from formal Versaillais parterres made of...
Alessandro Angelico
8 min read
Directing the Design Biennale: In Conversation with Victoria Broackes
Victoria Broackes is Director of the 2021 London Design Biennale. Previously she worked for the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A): as...
Joseph Court
11 min read
‘Canst thou draw out Leviathan with an hook?’: Job 41 in Hobbes’ Masterpiece
Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down its tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in its nose, or pierce its jaw with...
Peter McLaughlin
12 min read
Mapping the Modern Sacred in Federico Fellini’s La dolce vita (1960) and Paolo Sorrentino’s La grande bellezza (2013)
The assumption we live in a secularized world is false. The world today … is as furiously religious as it ever was. —Peter Berger[1] Fig...
Marie-Louise James
12 min read
The French Veil Debate: State Insecurity and the Family
The family is often presented as an opponent to the state as the location of power, or as an alternative to state institutions. The 2004...
Mary Osborne
12 min read
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