Banned Books and Freedom of Expression The right to free expression is severely threatened in many...
More Means Better: Fifty years of Higher Education Kingsley Amis famously argued that, in higher education, "More Means...
Divine Law, Human Prophet: Moses in Hebrew and Greek The Hebrew lawgiver Moses was compared to ancient Greek lawgivers...
The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins In June 1780 the most destructive urban riots in English...
Leadership at a Time of Transition and Turbulence - A conversation with Peter Sutherland KCMG Professor Costa conducts a conversation/discussion with Peter Sutherland, Chairman of...
Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
The Great Depression and ‘Embedded Liberalism’ The Great Depression posed a serious threat to capitalism as economic nationalism flourished and Communism and Fascism offered alternative models.
Middle Class Recruits to Communism in the 1930s Why did some idealistic young people join the Communist Party...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...