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Lessons from Scottish Schools

Lindsay Paterson discusses Scotland’s educational decline and the social inequality of attainment.

May 14, 2026
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Opium in Afghanistan, a glimpse from the past

By Sara Peterson In recent years, the cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan has become a news item, with reports from the United Nations and the United States Government documenting record highs (no pun intended) in opium production. Now we…

Teri Williams
November 16, 2020

My First Day in Camp with the Piruzai – Afghanistan, 1971

By Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper In 1971 and 1972 Richard Tapper and I lived with Afghan villagers for nearly a year. The Piruzai, some 200 families, lived in two small settlements near the town of Sar-e Pol in northern Afghanistan. They were…

Teri Williams
June 19, 2020
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Lessons from Scottish Schools

Opium in Afghanistan, a glimpse from the past

My First Day in Camp with the Piruzai – Afghanistan, 1971

Lessons from Scottish Schools

From Multiple Possible Worlds to Fission-Fusion Experience

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Contesting Language in the Seventeenth Century—and Now

Q&A with Michelle Honeybun, author of “‘His Vest, I Perceive, Is But Padded with Cotton!”: John Bull in Cotton Famine Poetry during the American Civil War (1861–5)’