Does Net Zero Mean the End of Livestock Agriculture? Diet and agriculture are borderline untouchable “third rail” issues in...
Women of the Harlem Renaissance In the early twentieth century Black creatives were America’s artistic...
Picturesque Engineering: Telford's Highland Roads and Bridges In partnership with the Fulbright Commission. In 1819, Thomas Telford...
What Rights and Duties are Missing from the U.S. Constitution? Regarding the US Constitution, there is a major split between...
Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
Local or global? Network economics and the new economy Should we prefer the brittle resilience of a very nervous...
Carbon Offsetting: Does It Really Work? Offsets, politely called carbon credit markets, are essential to many...
Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...