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Anti-Imperialist Publications and Suspended Disbelief: Reading the Public Materials of the League Against Imperialism, 1927-1937

by guest contributor Disha Karnad Jani “Why We Appear”: so begins the September-October 1931 issue of the Anti-Imperialist Review, the official journal of the League Against Imperialism and for National Independence (LAI). This organization was founded in 1927 and brought… Continue Reading →

Leibniz and Deleuze on Paradox

by guest contributor Audrey Borowski Paradox features prominently in Leibniz’s thought process, and yet has failed to receive much attention within mainstream scholarship. The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, however, devoted his book The Logic of Sense to the analysis of… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Sept. 19-23

Emily: The first UK production in nearly 30 years of Tony Harrison’s The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (Finborough Theatre) Emily Nussbaum, ‘Fleabag,’ an Original Bad-Girl Comedy (New Yorker) Professor Cottom’s Grad School Guidance, a great document for anyone considering applying for… Continue Reading →

Cheek Rending, Bodies, and Rape in Medieval Castile, c. 1050-1300

by guest contributor Rachel Q. Welsh In medieval Castile, between about 1050 and 1300, local municipal lawcodes, or fueros, looked to the body for proof of rape. These fueros provided detailed and practical sets of laws and privileges to newly… Continue Reading →

Paris’s New Musée de l’Homme: Then, Now, Tomorrow

by guest contributor Anna Toledano Autobiography is an art form that only few have mastered. The newly reopened permanent exhibition at the Musée de l’Homme (Museum of Mankind) in Paris does a remarkable job of writing the book on our… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Sept. 12-16

John: Tim Barker, “The Congress for Cultural Freedom’s Ultimate Failure” (The New Republic) The Economist (C.G.), “Comrade, where are you today?” The Economist, “Patricians of Parchment” Marie Gaille, « Impudique pudeur » (La vie des idées) Claudio Giunta, “Una sommessa… Continue Reading →

Brexit for Historians

On Friday, September 9 in the Columbia University history department, British historians Susan Pedersen and Sam Wetherell led a conversation about Britain’s referendum to leave the European Union. Intended as what Wetherell referred to as an “air-clearing” for historians who… Continue Reading →

Threatened by Prejudices: French Revolutionary Textbooks

by guest contributor Hannah Malcolm During the French Revolution, statesmen faced the task of altering society in order to preserve the new Republic, which entailed developing a politics of virtue and culture. In response to demands for public involvement in… Continue Reading →

What We’re Reading: Sept. 5-9

Emily: Extra-parliamentary movements? Tim Barker, Beyond the Ballot Box: Occupy and Bernie (LRB) Douglas Martin, Phyllis Schlafly, Conservative Leader and Foe of E.R.A., Dies at 92 (NY Times) Stacie Taranto, Phyllis Schlafly and the Making of Grassroots Conservative Sexual Politics… Continue Reading →

American Zionism: A Mass-Cultural Movement?

by guest contributor Kyle Stanton Mordecai Noah was one of the first Jews to reach national prominence in America. A politician, newspaper publisher, and man of letters, Noah was notoriously dismissed from his post as Consul of Tunisia by Secretary… Continue Reading →

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