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By guest contributor Edward Maza In a 1953 letter, Alfred H. Barr Jr.—the founding director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art—wrote: “in our civilization with what seems to be a general decline in religious, ethical, and moral convictions, art… Continue Reading →
The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 80, number 1 (January 2019), is now available in print, and online at Project Muse. The table of contents is as follows: Spencer J. Weinreich, “Hagiography by the Book: Bibliomancy… Continue Reading →
Spencer: “Human beings,” wrote Lytton Strachey in the preface to Eminent Victorians (1918), “are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past” (5). And he was as good as his word. Eminent Victorians is indeed a remarkable… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Isabella Lores-Chavez The objects in the painted cupboard by Antonio Pérez de Aguilar are under lock and key. Vessels and foodstuffs from diverse origins coexist behind a pane of glass that encloses the cupboard. The key sitting… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Jake Newcomb Several scholars published essential works in the past decade that excavate the history of mass incarceration in the United States. Scholarship by historians Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Heather Ann Thompson, and Kelly Lytle-Hernandez have helped to… Continue Reading →
by contributing writer Bart Zantvoort What is the cause of social alienation, the increasing number of burnouts and depressions, and the failure of political institutions in our late-modern times? According to the German sociologist Hartmut Rosa, all of these problems… Continue Reading →
Interview conducted by Richard Calis and Lillian Datchev For this podcast, we spoke with Dr. Pamela Long about her latest book, Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome (Chicago University Press, 2018)…. Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Marco Menin Paul et Virginie, or the Misfortune of Religious Enlightenment The first time I read Paul et Virginie I was nearly ten years old, attending elementary school in a small town in Northern Italy. Among the… Continue Reading →
By Simon Brown In 1908, the humanities were in peril, as they so often seem to be. That year Irving Babbitt, a professor of French literature at Harvard, published a collection of essays he had written over the previous two… Continue Reading →
