The disciples of St Thomas Aquinas have organized their enquiries in diverse ways throughout the history of Thomism. The surge of reinvigorated interest in Thomas Aquinas following Leo XIII’s Aeterni Patris inspired a wide variety of purported types of Thomism in the twentieth century. What should Thomists of the twenty-first century learn from their inheritance of past centuries of Thomism? How can they take up Leo XIII’s call vetera novis augere et perficere. I aim to address two issues in this essay. First, to identify a more principled demarcation of approaches to Thomistic enquiry, which eschews the commonplace but problematic and merely sociological classifications of the last century’s ‘schools’ of Thomism. I argue that a more principled and agenda-setting criteria distinguishes “defensive-constructive commentary Thomism” and “tradition-constituted-enquiry Thomism”. The first stresses fidelity to the conclusions found in careful readings of Aquinas’s texts. The second emphasizes fidelity to Aquinas’s systematic forms of enquiry directed to the truth. Second, I then probe the resources these two forms of Thomism have for addressing the epistemological crises facing Thomism, focusing on those concerning how to engage the nova of the sciences and rival philosophical traditions.

In what ways, if any, do justice-involved Black women make political demands? How do they understand their role and rights as citizens? Previous work has focused on identifying forms of political behavior, both formal and deviant (i.e., resistance, subversive acts), and the degree to which different groups participate in these behaviors. Few studies have focused on the sensemaking and ideologies likely motivating the behavior of justice-involved Black women both within and outside the formal political realm (e.g., elections). Drawing on the responses of Black women residents of an urban prison reentry facility, this article illustrates how this group engages in what we describe as “political claimsmaking,” a type of deviant discourse in which participants negotiate the power dynamics informing their social reality to make political demands. Further, we argue that while this political claimsmaking acts as a form of resistance and assertion of citizenship, it is simultaneously a form of inequitable political labor. Understanding Black women’s political claims, and the labor involved in making them, has serious implications for imagining more liberatory futures in which the benefits associated with citizenship are more freely accessed.

Studies have found that voters in democratic countries are far more reluctant to use military force against democracies than against nondemocracies. This pattern may help explain why democracies almost never wage war against other democracies. In an important contribution, Rathbun, Parker, and Pomeroy (2025) propose that the apparent democratic peace in public opinion is an artifact of failing to account for race. Rather than democracy itself influencing support for war, they argue, the term “democracy” cues assumptions about the adversary’s racial composition, and those racialized assumptions are the true drivers of support for war. We reevaluate RPP’s evidence, concluding that their data do not support their predictions. In fact, their novel experiments provide powerful evidence that democracy affects support for war, independent of race. Our findings contribute to major debates about both regime type and race in international relations, as well as the design and interpretation of survey experiments.

Carmen Pavel has recently provided an illuminating analysis of the limits of anarchic legal orders and, by extension, current arrangements for international law (Pavel 2021). Central to her argument is an account of the structural flaws in market anarchist institutions. The current paper argues that market anarchist theorists have robust responses to at least some of Pavel’s criticisms. From the anarchist viewpoint, statist approaches to legal enforcement have problems that are at least as “structural” as those Pavel attributes to anarchism. The paper seeks to articulate this anarchist position and clarify the ways in which it complicates some of Pavel’s claims. It then offers some suggestions regarding what insights this market anarchist perspective might offer for our understanding of international law.

This paper presents the results of recent geophysical survey work in the vicinity of the Roman town of Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough, North Yorkshire). It combines results from research projects with information from developer-funded work to assess the nature of settlement in the area at the time of the foundation of the Roman town and through the period of its use. The work confirms that there was no major pre-Roman Iron Age centre in the area at the time of Roman annexation. It does, however, provide new evidence to show that the landscape was heavily exploited and occupied by rural settlements. The evidence revealed suggests that Iron Age society in this area may have been heterarchical.

Ensiling tropical grasses presents a challenge in achieving an optimal fermentation profile, particularly when the grass possesses high nutritional value. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the use of additives during ensiling as a strategy to enhance the fermentation profile and nutritional quality of Zuri grass (Megathyrsus maximus cv. BRS Zuri) silage harvested at two regrowth ages. The tested additives were control (CT); Lactiplantibacillus pentosus strain AV 14.17 (LP); cellulase (CE); and LPCE (LP + CE). The regrowth ages were 60 and 90 days. Increased regrowth age of Zuri grass resulted in a higher fermentability coefficient but a reduced crude protein content in the fresh forage. The CE and LPCE silages exhibited lower fibre content. The crude protein content was higher and the ammonia content was lower in the CE and LPCE silages when the grass was harvested at 60 days. The pH was lower in CE and LPCE silages at both regrowth ages. Butyric acid was detected only in the CT and LP silages when the grass was harvested at 60 days. The CE and LPCE silages showed greater effective digestibility. The indigestible fraction of neutral detergent fibre was higher in silage harvested at 90 days. The addition of cellulase, alone or combined with the L. pentosus strain, effectively solubilised the fibre components, resulting in a lower pH and more effective control of undesirable microorganisms, thus improving the nutritional value. The most significant results were obtained when Zuri grass was harvested at 60 days of regrowth.

Let $W_{\mathrm {aff}}$ be an extended affine Weyl group, $\mathbf {H}$ be the corresponding affine Hecke algebra over the ring $\mathbb {C}[\mathbf {q}^{\frac {1}{2}}, \mathbf {q}^{-\frac {1}{2}}]$, and J be Lusztig’s asymptotic Hecke algebra, viewed as a based ring with basis $\{t_w\}$. Viewing J as a subalgebra of the $(\mathbf {q}^{-\frac {1}{2}})$-adic completion of $\mathbf {H}$ via Lusztig’s map $\phi $, we use Harish-Chandra’s Plancherel formula for p-adic groups to show that the coefficient of $T_x$ in $t_w$ is a rational function of $\mathbf {q}$, with denominator depending only on the two-sided cell containing w, and dividing a power of the Poincaré polynomial of the finite Weyl group. As an application, we conjecture that these denominators encode more detailed information about the failure of the Kazhdan-Lusztig classification at roots of the Poincaré polynomial than is currently known.

Along the way, we show that upon specializing $\mathbf {q}=q>1$, the map from J to the Harish-Chandra Schwartz algebra is injective. As an application of injectivity, we give a novel criterion for an Iwahori-spherical representation to have fixed vectors under a larger parahoric subgroup in terms of its Kazhdan-Lusztig parameter.

Despite a heavy philosophical focus on issues pertaining to immigration, little discussion is taken up that examines the duties we owe to migrant children. This article works to bridge the gap between global justice literature and work on children’s autonomy and well-being. To capture what migrant children experience in the context of immigration and detention, the article examines the conditions on the island country of Nauru, where at least 222 migrant children experienced detention between the years of 2013 and 2019. Using this lived experience as an example, the article argues that we owe children specific positive duties, which are further supported by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Throughout this article, the aim is to indicate how migrant children occupy a particularly vulnerable and nonautonomous status in the context of detention. Because of this, children are owed especially weighty positive duties that are not discussed in the current global justice literature.

This paper examines clothing depicted in the portraits painted on the walls of the tombs of elites at various settlements in Campania and Lucania in southwest Italy in the fourth century BC, as it provides important information on sartorial appearances and self-perception, especially in view of the dearth of textiles and lack of textual sources. It investigates the interconnected relationship between dress behaviour, ethnic identity and social status among independent Italic groups in the region in this century, a time of political and cultural tensions triggered by Rome’s aggressive expansion of its territorial control. The images, as well as the material culture from grave assemblages, indicate that people expressed who they thought they were through clothing and dress accessories and that this happened on a local basis rather than on a large scale or ‘national’ level. It was predominantly women who were expressing group belonging through specific garments and styles, headdresses, colours and patterns. These images painted for perpetuity offer us a precious window on dress behaviour and they suggest that women were the primary bearers of small-scale community identities in funerary representation and in life in this period of political and social change.

From 1967 onward, the ANC in exile recruited young non-South Africans classified as “white” to carry out clandestine solidarity missions because of their ability to travel freely around the country. Drawing on the recollections of these recruits, as documented in two books and presented in a series of webinars, this article examines how they exploited their white privilege to support the liberation struggle. By foregrounding female perspectives and focusing on the tensions caused by concealing political convictions, the article provides new insights into daily life in the underground movement and sheds light on this lesser-known dimension of international solidarity.

Rhizoliths, cylindrical concretions formed primarily by CaCO3 accumulation around plant roots, serve as valuable indicators of past environmental conditions, including hydrology, redox dynamics, and carbon cycling. Despite growing interest in paleo-reconstructions, the lack of quantitative studies on formation mechanisms complicates interpretation. We present “RhizoCalc”, the first mechanistic model (deployed in HYDRUS-1D) computing rhizolith formation in CaCO3-containing loess soils, integrating water fluxes, root water uptake, and (Ca)-carbonate chemistry to simulate conditions under which rhizoliths develop. Hydraulic fluxes drive Ca2+ transport (0.13–1 mmol/L) toward the rhizosphere, governed by root water uptake under low (ETo = 0.03 cm/d) and high (ETo = 1 cm/d) flow rates at optimal (ho = –100 cm) and intermediate (ho = –1000 cm) moisture conditions. The simulations show that hydraulic constraints and calcite-induced jamming of the porous medium are key inhibitors of rhizolith growth, distinguishing physical limitations from biogeochemical feedbacks in the rhizosphere. On top of this, our work reveals root encasement and reliquary varieties, linking their physical and biogeochemical mechanisms to rhizolith transformations and offering insights into paleosol hydrology and redox dynamics. Under intermediate soil-water conditions with 1 mmol/L Ca2+, concentric rhizoliths with 0.2–3 cm radii form chrono-sequentially over 1.5–150 years. Each layer preserves CaCO3 constituents (δ18O, δ13C, 44Ca, 46Ca, 48Ca), root-derived biomarkers (e.g., lignin), and clumped isotopes (Δ47), preserving environmental signatures across time into the future. Therefore, this framework conceptualizes each rhizolith as a ‘time-capsule’ with each successive CaCO3 layer encapsulating a snapshot of vital environmental proxies, providing a window into otherwise inaccessible historic ecosystem dynamics. Refining reconstructions of Earth’s paleoclimatic history requires cross-sectional isolation of concentric layers in well-preserved rhizoliths, capturing distinct isotopic bands and their stratigraphy.