This week, we presented a lecture by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen entitled “Globalization and Solidarity.” Sen is the first scholar to hold the visiting professorship at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University.
Sen argued in this lecture against the perception of globalization as a western phenomenon and/or [...]

As physics seeks a unified theory of the universe, some historians seek a unified theory of past events. History’s main objective is to tell and pursue the truth. But is truth relative or absolute? And, can historical truth be established objectively solely through theorization and interpretation without any existing empirical evidence?
According to historian Keith Windschuttle, [...]

Karl Marx believed that historical events could have occurred only in the precise way they did. Political scientist Isaiah Berlin thought that historical events took place the way they did because historical figures acted freely and therefore should be accountable for them. If there exists free will, can there also be such a thing as [...]