Articles

Introduction   Canonical Penance in the early Church and the modern concept of prison, broadly construed, are both processes of...

Turrets and spires tower over rich façades and stained-glass windows. Ornate vases sprout up from formal Versaillais parterres made of...

A recent study in the United States indicated that the rate of Americans identifying themselves using political terms has almost doubled...

Conventional wisdom tells us that the first civilisation to be governed in a manner comparable to our own was Ancient Greece—the world’s...

Introduction   The 2015 Paris Agreement was a pivotal moment in the struggle against climate change. While previous climate agreements...

1. The fish are alright   Historically and presently, the United Kingdom has identified and presented itself as a maritime...

Modern commerce takes place at supersonic speed. It therefore surprises many that most of the world’s traded goods are still, at some...

The will to transparency, the scopic drive to see through, to scrutinise naked truth, encounters a significant impediment in the dead...

Count Sperello di Serego Alighieri is an astronomer descended from Dante Alighieri, author of the  Divine Comedy .   Antoine de Gabrielli...

Maggie Hoag is Deputy General Counsel, Americas, at the auction house Christie’s. She studied art law at Stanford, and was involved in...