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Provost Pawkie’s Travels in Time: The Provost, by John Galt

by Caroline McCracken-Flesher In Provost Pawkie’s Gudetown readers hear the town clock tick just once. The city fathers gather at […]

January 27, 2025
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How ISIS Fights: New Books in National Security

In this great interview from New Books in National Security, Omar Ashour, author of How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt, talks to host Jeffrey Bristol about his work. They discuss the origin of Ashour’s study…

Helena Heald
February 4, 2022

Photograph of President Johnson at an NSC meeting in 1966. He sits in the middle with two men either side. He looks bored.

The Past as Prologue on Presidential Privilege

As the Mueller investigation comes to a close, Kevin M. Baron looks to the history of the Freedom of Information Act and finds that the battle between Congress and the White House is nothing new.

Naomi Farmer
May 13, 2019

Provost Pawkie’s Travels in Time: The Provost, by John Galt

How ISIS Fights: New Books in National Security

The Past as Prologue on Presidential Privilege

Provost Pawkie’s Travels in Time: The Provost, by John Galt

Do your movements in sleep resemble artificial frogs?

The use and abuse of antiquity for life

The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Q&A

The US and UK as embedded democracies