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  Here is the second installment of some of the books that the Blog’s editors have lined up for summer. From art history to critical theory, from fiction to poetry, we’ve got you covered if you’re looking for something to… Continue Reading →

By Contributing Editor Brendan Mackie Just what makes humanity special? On a range of merely physical indicators, the human animal is downright average. Our metabolic rate is roughly what it is for other animals our size. We’re decent sprinters, but… Continue Reading →

By guest contributor Emma Kluge On April 12-13, scholars from across the world gathered together at the University of Sydney for Trafficking, Smuggling and Illicit Migration in International History: New Geographic and Scalar Perspectives. This workshop and conference was birthed… Continue Reading →

By Contributing Editor Cynthia Houng I finished Sheila Heti’s Motherhood over Mother’s Day weekend. In this book, Heti asks herself if she should have a child. If she should be a mother. I hadn’t planned on reading Motherhood over Mother’s… 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 →