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“As dogs, cats, horses, and probably all the higher animals, even birds have vivid dreams, we must admit that they possess some power of imagination.” —Charles Darwin, Descent of Man Darwin’s evolutionary theory

Although the novels’ protagonists are fascinating, even magnetic characters, they are eerie—all the more so because their unsettling behavior forces the reader to confront what most worries the Netherlands. The post What Keeps the

A literary genius who remained in Fascist Franco Spain, she created new, hybrid literary genres, even while fluidly moving from fiction to nonfiction and back. The post Toward the Next Century of Carmen

“Logistics,” warns Susan Zieger, “reveals how the illicit economy is the legitimate economy: the nature of free trade prevents the two from ever being separated.” The post You Have Nothing to Lose But Your

“Up until Franklin Delano Roosevelt, very few Americans actually called themselves liberals or embraced anything that was called ‘liberalism.’” The post “As Good As It Gets”: Talking Liberalism with Kevin Schultz appeared first on

In 2022, critical sports scholar Chen Chen uncovered a staggering statistic: The three leading academic journals in sports management (Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, and European Sport Management Quarterly), with over

I usually flinch from swashbuckling claims, but let me make this one at least: No hero from ancient myth feels as human as Odysseus. No one as relatable in their indomitable will to