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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Sufism in South and South East Asia
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TheCollector
Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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TheCollector
The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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TheCollector
4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
TheCollector
Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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TheCollector
Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
a week ago
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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TheCollector
5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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a year ago
TheCollector
12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
2 months ago
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
TheCollector
What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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a week ago
TheCollector
The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Conceptual Photography?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
7 months ago
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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5 months ago
African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
a year ago
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
TheCollector
What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
2 days ago
TheCollector
What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
TheCollector
A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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a year ago
TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
a year ago
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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3 months ago
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
5 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 South American Artists You Should Know
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Philosopher Kings
10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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a month ago
Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
3 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
TheCollector
Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
a year ago
TheCollector
The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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9 months ago
TheCollector
When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
a month ago
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
6 months ago
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
a year ago
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
TheCollector
Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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7 months ago
TheCollector
7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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10 months ago
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
a month ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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a month ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
TheCollector
Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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a year ago
Flashbak
On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
9 months ago
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
7 months ago
TheCollector
How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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a month ago
TheCollector
British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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5 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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a year ago
TheCollector
The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
a month ago
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
TheCollector
Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
5 months ago
Without living forever in fear and worry?
TheCollector
Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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3 months ago
Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
8 months ago
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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