by contributing editor Brooke Palmieri It would make an amazing opening sequence to a film: the camera catches the glint of chrome, leather, motorcycle, boots, asphalt. A helmet is secured, and a stack of books and belongings piled onto the… Continue Reading →
Emily: This week’s must-read, for college teachers especially: Eli Saslow, The white flight of Derek Black (Washington Post) An amazing documentary about women in Saudi Arabia, with fascinating echoes of nineteenth-century Britain: Mona El-Naggar, ‘Ladies First’: Saudi Arabia’s Female Candidates… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Daniel Joslyn In his most famous speech, “Self-Made Men,” written in 1854, and performed for the rest of his life, Frederick Douglass contends that: “from the various dregs of society, there come men who may well be… Continue Reading →
Emily: Susan Pedersen reviews Robert Vitalis: Destined to Disappear: ‘Race Studies’ (LRB) Tamson Pietsch, Great Gatsby Gap Year (Cap and Gown) Heather Ellis, Grammar Schools: Taking the Long View (History Matters, University of Sheffield) Stefan Collini, How to Be Ourselves:… Continue Reading →
By Jan Stöckmann On 16 January 1926, a group of statesmen, diplomats, and civil servants gathered in Paris to celebrate the inauguration of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation at its grand premises in the Palais Royal. Wine was served,… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Deborah Schlein When Greek medical texts were transmitted and translated in the ʿAbbasid capital of Baghdad in the ninth and tenth centuries, they paved the way for original Arabic medical sources which built off Greek humoral theory… Continue Reading →
John: Matthew Bevis, “Supping on Horrors” (Harper’s) Lina Bolzani, “Torna il vero «Furioso»” (Il Sole 24 Ore) Ian Buruma, “Le Carré’s Other Cold War” (The Nation) Alexander Cammann, »Der Überlebenskünstler« (Die Zeit) Christoph Charle, François Euvé and Gisèle Sapiro, «… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Spencer J. Weinreich Act III, scene iii of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (c.1596) sees the imprisoned Antonio following his creditor, Shylock, through the streets, in hopes of mercy. Unmoved, Shylock expostulates, “I do wonder, /… Continue Reading →
Emily: Some great historical statistics about education in the UK (House of Commons Library) Fintan O’Toole, The Easter Rising: Powerful and Useless (NYRB) Akash Kapur, The Return of the Utopians (New Yorker) Andy Seal, Jamie Doward, From Jane Austen to… Continue Reading →
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