Peter Winch on political legitimacy

This is a guest post by Lynette Reid, editor of Political Authority: Contract and Critique   I was a student (along with Olli Lagerspetz and others) of the British philosopher Peter Winch (1926–1997) in the last years of his life – the 1990s in Illinois. This was an era when...
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When it comes to songs, there’s more than meets the ear

This is a guest post by Glenn Fosbraey, author of Reading Song Lyrics: An Interdisciplinary and Multimodal Approach In today’s world, where streaming services allow us instant access to pretty much every song ever recorded, I like to keep certain ‘hard copy’ traditions alive. One of these, which stretches back...
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