Category Think Piece

By J. Laurence Hare and Fabian Link Studying history can be a lonely enterprise. While historians in the United States eagerly cultivate a sense of community through conferences, working groups, and edited volumes, their moments of cooperation are few and… Continue Reading →

By Editor Spencer Weinreich I read the news today, oh boy. As Shakespeare’s Richard II almost said, For God’s sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of queens. The world mourns the loss of… Continue Reading →

By guest contributor Alex Langstaff “The concept ‘crisis’ has indeed become a motto of modern politics, and for a long time it has been part of normality in any segment of social life,” argued Giorgio Agamben in a 2013 interview… Continue Reading →