Were Early American Prisons Similar to Today’s?
...for sleeping. via Wikimedia Commons A new philosophy in corrections and political theory more broadly dictated that prisons should be economically self-sustaining. The administration desired to offset the cost of...
Tchaikovsky’s Patroness
...politics and philosophy in eighteenth-century Europe. The 1970 book 84, Charing Cross Road, along with its 1987 film adaptation (starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins) is about the amiable solidarity...
What Coca Means in Peru
... Contact Us You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the provided link on any marketing message. Δ “This custom is an integral part of Andean philosophy, which...
In History, The Past is the Present is the Future
...holds that things inevitably get better over time. “Ethical Manichaeism and anti-utopianism are not inherent features of all retrospective politics but rather result from an underlying philosophy of history that...
Does Law Exist to Provide Moral Order?
In 1959, as a response to what was commonly known as the Wolfenden Report, Lord Devlin, an English judge, delivered the Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence at the British Academy. The...
Do We Actually See Shadows?
As a student, I wondered why the eighth century monk Fridugisus of Tours read the Bible to prove the existence of shadows when he could see shadows on the page....
How South Asian Temple Dancers Fought Moral Reform
...colony of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Añcukam focused on stories of her predecessors, delved into Hindu philosophy, and ended with her own autobiography. Addressed to fellow devadāsīs, the book documents...
The Anatomy of Melancholy at 400: Still Good Advice
...and Morall Philosophy, Philology, in Policy, Heraldry, Genealogy, Chronology &c.” As Shirilan writes, “The indiscriminate mixture of recreations both physical and intellectual reveals that, for Burton, the mind that ails...
How Veterans Created PTSD
...of this philosophy would be accounting for PTSD’s influence on behavior if those behaviors should result in criminal convictions. In response, veteran treatment courts have cropped up around the country...