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February 11, 2021
in History

A Mirage on the Mekong

February 11, 2021
in History

Sebastian Strangio— In the West, Cambodia is nearly synonymous with the terror and mass murder that engulfed the country in the mid-1970s, when the Khmer Rouge seized power and embarked on a radical experiment in communism. Led by “Brother Number One” Pol Pot, who dreamt of recreating the glories of

April 7, 2011
in Current Affairs, Humanities, Law, Philosophy

Architectural Justice

April 7, 2011
in Current Affairs, Humanities, Law, Philosophy

Continuing with our look at architectural spaces as constructs of the human imagination, a new book, Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms, by Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis, gives special insight into the ways in which Justice has publicly appeared and influenced our own democratic