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is professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. His latest book is Just and Unjust Uses of Limited Force (2021), and his current book project is ‘The Last Letter: Intimate ...

From finding the perfect tree to the final varnish, this video from the Hardanger Maritime Centre museum in Norheimsund, Norway shows two craftspeople assembling a boat using 19th-century methods and ...