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Nuala Alexandra Alvergne and Vedrana Högqvist Tabor, “Is Female Health Cyclical? Evolutionary Perspectives on Menstruation,” (TREE) Jen Banbury, “The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver” (Atlas Obscura) Jill Lapore, “The Right Way to Remember Rachel Carson”(New Yorker) Jenna… Continue Reading →
The Spring 2018 edition of the Journal of the History of Ideas. When the Eyes Are Shut: The Strange Case of Girolamo Cardano’s Idolum in Somniorum Synesiorum Libri IIII (1562) by Anna Corrias Pierre Bayle and the Secularization of Conscience… Continue Reading →
Derek Stephanie McCarter, “The Bad Wives: Misogyny’s Age-Old Roots in the Home” (Eidolon) Sam Haselby, “These should be the end times for patriotism” (aeon) Eric Posner and Glen Weyl, “How Economists Became Timid” (Chronicle of Higher Education) Claire Messud, “Wilder… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Editor AJ Hawks I first started studying taekwondo when I was in high school, partially because of the movies (“Can he really do that?!”) and partially to please my Korean grandmother who had handed me a flier about… Continue Reading →
Sundry readings from our editorial team this week: AJ: Alina Cohen, “The Legendary Bars Where Famous Artists Drank, Debated, and Made Art History” (Artsy) Lungisile Ntsebeza, “This Land is Our Land” (Foreign Policy) Ronald Brownstein, “American Higher Education Hits a… Continue Reading →
The first three editions of our occasional podcast series are now available for download. Hosted by our editorial team, these wide-ranging conversations on intellectual history are available in “Interviews and Podcasts“, or you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes.
By Contributing Writer Flaminia Incecchi The only existing memorial to the once-famous philosopher Giovanni Gentile is in his native city Castelvetrano, a modest country town in the Sicilian province of Trapani. The memorial was made by a local artist in… Continue Reading →
At the blog this week, don’t miss Professor Shane White on the classic musical and film “The Sting,” and the African American history of the confidence man. And in the third of our occasional podcast series, contributing writer John Handel… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer John Handel with Dan Bouk, How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual (UChicago, 2015); William Deringer, Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age (HUP, 2018); and Jamie Pietruska, Looking Forward: Prediction… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Shane White In the stage production of “The Sting” currently at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, (and reviewed in the New York Times on April 9th) the African American actor, J. Harrison Ghee, plays Johnny… Continue Reading →
