by guest contributor David Loner This past month I attended a symposium held at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge in memory of the Finnish logician and Cambridge professor of philosophy G.H. von Wright (1916-2003), who this June would have been 100…. Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Monique Flores Ulysses Growing up as the child of a Mexican mother, when I heard Alejandro Fernández’s rendition of the popular corrido “Paso del norte” blasting out of our old speakers on a Saturday morning, I knew… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Jamie Phillips At a meeting of the Society of Psychoneurologists-Materialists in Moscow in 1930, the Chairman of the Society, Aron Zalkind, appraised the current the state of their field in the Soviet Union, and spoke in particular… Continue Reading →
Emily: Sam Tanenhaus, Rise of the Reactionary, on the history of the American right (New Yorker) Olivia Robinson and Alison Moulds, Women in Oxford’s History, a new podcast Jaime Cantrell, Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Charles Cuykendall Carter The New York Society Library’s current pop-up exhibit explores the life and experiences of Herman Melville in New York City, during the time leading up to the 1851 publication of Moby-Dick. The more specific,… Continue Reading →
by contributing editor Brooke Palmieri It would make an amazing opening sequence to a film: the camera catches the glint of chrome, leather, motorcycle, boots, asphalt. A helmet is secured, and a stack of books and belongings piled onto the… Continue Reading →
Emily: This week’s must-read, for college teachers especially: Eli Saslow, The white flight of Derek Black (Washington Post) An amazing documentary about women in Saudi Arabia, with fascinating echoes of nineteenth-century Britain: Mona El-Naggar, ‘Ladies First’: Saudi Arabia’s Female Candidates… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Daniel Joslyn In his most famous speech, “Self-Made Men,” written in 1854, and performed for the rest of his life, Frederick Douglass contends that: “from the various dregs of society, there come men who may well be… Continue Reading →
Emily: Susan Pedersen reviews Robert Vitalis: Destined to Disappear: ‘Race Studies’ (LRB) Tamson Pietsch, Great Gatsby Gap Year (Cap and Gown) Heather Ellis, Grammar Schools: Taking the Long View (History Matters, University of Sheffield) Stefan Collini, How to Be Ourselves:… Continue Reading →
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