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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 →
Captivée by Lesrel Adolphe Alexandre. Derek Emily Badger, “What Happened to the American Boomtown?” (New York Times) Michael J. Lewis, “Cedar Grove, restored” (New Criterion) Jeanine Michna-Bales, “The Long Road to Freedom” (Oxford American) Gordon Wood (podcast interview), “The World… Continue Reading →
by Contributing Writer Sarah Scullin THE ART OF THE WORD Between the period of Biblical/Babylonian acrostics and those of the Christian era, the Greeks and, later, the Romans, used acrostics in their literature in ways that were as difficult to… Continue Reading →
By Simon Brown In November 1647, the dispossessed cleric Thomas Harrison wrote yet another petition to the Parliamentary Committee for Plundered Ministers, imploring them this time to use his innovative note-taking system for ordering all their records taken “since these… Continue Reading →
