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In his inauguration speech, President Donald Trump spoke of “American carnage” and the “red blood of patriots”. There’s blood and carnage galore to be found in Shakespeare’s goriest play, which chronicles the rise and fall of Byzantine Emperor Titus Andronicus.
No-one is suggesting that Trump is about to kill any rivals or blind any bishops, but Maximilian Lau explains how the circumstances that led to the real Andronicus’s rise – free trade, a fading superpower and a disconnected, cosmopolitan elite – also helped put a populist billionaire in the White House.
And if you’ve had enough of inauguration fever, enjoy all our non-Trump-related content from the week.
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Maximilian Lau, Hitotsubashi University
There is an era that lends itself rather closer than the tired Nazi comparisons of Donald Trump. And it may have a far more useful message for us today.
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Environment + Energy
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Michael Molitor, Sciences Po – USPC
We need Mars-level thinking to solve our energy and climate problems here on Earth.
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Science + Technology
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Janna Rose, Grenoble École de Management (GEM); Marcos Barros, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
There's never been greater need for the study of what we don't know, and why we're not supposed to know it.
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Isabelle Manighetti, Université Côte d’Azur
Recent research contradicts the belief that a period of calm usually follows a serious earthquake.
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Politics + Society
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Virginia Beaudoux García, University of Buenos Aires
Studies show that biased coverage — from jabs at the German chancellor's low-cut dress to insinuations that Argentina's president has a 'mood disorder' — undermines women in public office.
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Brigid Laffan, European University Institute
Theresa May will find that having a seat at the table is not the same as being on the wrong side of it.
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