This is a guest post by Theo Reks, author of Controlled Economic Evolution At the beginning of summer, a great many things tend to happen. Before people settle into a proper holiday mood, there is usually one last surge of business activity. Yet amid the storm of loud news before the seasonal lull, one fact […]

This is a guest post by S.E. Gontarski, author of The Anthem Beckett Studies Reader: Re-viewing Samuel Beckett The subtitle to this volume of critical essays, Re-viewing Samuel Beckett, punctuates the fact that The Anthem Beckett Studies Reader doesn’t merely add to the already formidable body of criticism on Samuel Beckett’s work, it reshapes how […]

This is a guest post by Maria Barbu, author of The Politicization of Gender In 2016, the election of Donald Trump did more than disrupt American electoral politics. It redefined the place of gender in nationalist discourse.         Just weeks before Americans went to the polls, a recording surfaced of the presidential candidate bragging about sexual […]

This is a guest post by Federico Luis Escribal, author of South American Perspectives on Cultural Diversity: An Analysis of Contemporary Cultural Policies in Argentina, Brazil and Peru The beginning of the second quarter of the twenty-first century seems marked by two concurrent dynamics: the growing sterility of an internationalist apparatus inherited from the second […]

This is an interview with Sandra Sousa, author of The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira  What inspired you to write The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira? The idea for this book began during a research trip to Mozambique. While I was there, I had the opportunity to […]

This is a guest post by Ali Hossein Khani, author of Kripke’s Wittgenstein: Meaning, Rules and Scepticism My first encounter with Kripke’s seminal book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (1982) goes back almost two decades, when I was working on my master’s dissertation. On that first reading, the book struck me as relatively straightforward. […]

This is an interview with Lawrence Hogue, author of Struggle, Resistance, and Decolonization in African American Literature after 1960 What is the aim of this book? From the seventh and eighth centuries, as Muslim Arabs moved across North Africa, conquering Black Africa, and Europeans colonised sub-Saharan Africa, they represented the Black African subject (and cultural […]

This is a guest post by Naren Chitty, series editor of Anthem Studies in Soft Power and Public Diplomacy. Practice related to soft power has always been a subtle art. Yet in the age of artificial intelligence, it is becoming a science as well. As AI systems increasingly mediate global communication, identity formation and political […]

This is an interview with Lou Marinoff, author of Paradoxes of Rationality, Probability and Utility Interviewer: Your book is subtitled “Slaying Decision Theory’s Dragons.” What are these “dragons,” and why must they be slain? Author: The “dragons” are persistent paradoxes and dilemmas that have haunted decision theory for decades—such as Bertrand’s Random Chord Paradox, Elga’s […]