Natalie Koch (Syracuse): Gulf Nationalism and the Geopolitics of Constructing Falconry as a “Heritage Sport”. The racist dawn of capitalism: Peter James Hudson reviews Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert; The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist; River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson; and The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery by Nicholas Draper. Are Disney princesses hurting your daughter’s self-esteem? Danielle Paquette on the unexpected way Disney princesses affect little boys. For philosophy to be effective, it has to understand the world in which it operates — David Hume brought history and politics to the realm of ideas (and more).
