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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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