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Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows ...

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...

is professor and chair of global international relations at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is the founding director of the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) and ...