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Here are a few of the pieces the team at the JHI blog have been reading over the last week: Derek “The World in Time”: Interview with Eric Foner (Lapham’s Quarterly) Anton Jaeger, “The Myth of Populism” (Jacobin) Richard… Continue Reading →
by contributing writer Jonathon Catlin This post is adapted from the author’s contribution to a panel discussion entitled “The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming” hosted by the Leo Baeck Institute, New York City on October 25, 2017, featuring co-panelists… Continue Reading →
by contributing writer Agatha A. Slupek Simone Weil (1909-1943) occupies a liminal position in the history of ideas. While Weil’s thought is an established concern for scholars of religion and mysticism, she is neglected in the Anglophone study of the… Continue Reading →
Happy New Year! Here are a few pieces that the JHI blog team have been reading over the holiday season. Derek Adam Hochschild, “Ku Klux Klambakes” (NYRB) Robin D.G. Kelley, “Coates and West in Jackson” (Boston Review) Randall Kenney, “The… Continue Reading →
by Contributing Writer Lucy Valsamidis Athens was doing badly in the war against Sparta. The fleet had been devastated in Sicily, and morale and cash were running low. When Peisander appeared in the assembly and explained the only way to… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Stephan Steiner “Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching” (Susan Sontag). In other words: If we want to understand visually, then… Continue Reading →
We’re taking a brief sabbatical for a week during the festive season. Here is a list of our most popular posts this year to keep you in reading until we return in the New Year. Happy Holidays Everyone! “In Dread… Continue Reading →
Sarah: Colin Gordon, “The Legacy of Taft-Hartley,” (Jacobin) Bella Li, “December in Poetry,” (overland) Patricia Lockwood, “It Was Gold,” (LRB) Eric: Christine Buci-Glucksmann, “May ’68 and the Crisis of Marxism (1978)” (Viewpoint). John Ganz, “The Forgotten Man: On Murray… Continue Reading →
by Contributing Writer Nicholas Ferns Throughout 1972, a series of seminars were held at Monash University in Melbourne to examine “Indonesian society and politics” under the Suharto regime. Organized by the Monash University Association of Students, these seminars resulted in… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Craig Johnson Alberto Ignacio Ezcurra Uriburu, the leader of Argentina’s first modern terrorist organization, was a frail, dark-haired, long-faced seminary dropout rarely seen without his thick black glasses. Right-wing power and ideology ran in his family. His… Continue Reading →
