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By Contributing Writer Flaminia Incecchi The only existing memorial to the once-famous philosopher Giovanni Gentile is in his native city Castelvetrano, a modest country town in the Sicilian province of Trapani. The memorial was made by a local artist in… Continue Reading →
At the blog this week, don’t miss Professor Shane White on the classic musical and film “The Sting,” and the African American history of the confidence man. And in the third of our occasional podcast series, contributing writer John Handel… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer John Handel with Dan Bouk, How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual (UChicago, 2015); William Deringer, Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age (HUP, 2018); and Jamie Pietruska, Looking Forward: Prediction… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Shane White In the stage production of “The Sting” currently at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, (and reviewed in the New York Times on April 9th) the African American actor, J. Harrison Ghee, plays Johnny… Continue Reading →
This week at the JHI Blog from our editorial team, “Bernini at the Borghese” by Cynthia Houng, and “Reading Saint Augustine in Toledo” from Spencer Weinreich. And some weekend reading from around the web. Nuala Giuseppe Bianco, The Misadventures of… Continue Reading →
By Editor Spencer J. Weinreich In his magisterial history of the Reformation, Diarmaid MacCulloch wrote, “from one perspective, a century or more of turmoil in the Western Church from 1517 was a debate in the mind of long-dead Augustine.” MacCulloch… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Editor Cynthia Houng In Rome, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) is nearly unavoidable. Walk down the center of the Piazza S. Pietro and look up. All along the great curving wings of the Piazza’s colonnades stand Bernini’s saints–carved and… Continue Reading →
Nuala: Jonathan Fuller,” Universal etiology, multifactorial diseases and the constitutive model of disease classification” (Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Science). Rachel Nuwer “ It’s the Latest in Conservation Tech.And It Wants to Suck Your Blood.” (New York… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Editor Brendan Mackie I’m a 34-year-old white male. Like many of my position and generation, my childhood cursus honorum was marked by a progression of beige video game boxes: PC, NES, Genesis, and then finally a Sega CD…. Continue Reading →
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