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December 14, 2019 Intellectual history / universities

“In American Higher Ed, Hierarchy Begets Hierarchy”

This is the fifth installment in our forum on the Academy and Democracy, hosted with Tocqueville 21. Each author approaches

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December 11, 2019 Britain / Intellectual history

George Fox for Prime Minister

A Thought Experiment in the History of Travel By Editor Spencer J. Weinreich I seem to recall a history teachers

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December 6, 2019 Intellectual history / universities

From Democracy in the Streets to Democracy in Danger

In April 2019, Arthur Goldhammer delivered the following speech to the University of Chicago Democracy Initiative and Social Sciences Collegiate

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December 9, 2019 Book reviews / capitalism / Critical theory / universities

Fear of the Ivory Tower

By Contributing Editor Jonathon Catlin This is the fourth installment in our forum on the Academy and Democracy, hosted with

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December 2, 2019 Britain / history of science / Intellectual history / Interview / podcast

In Theory: Simon Brown interviews Nasser Zakariya on Science, Myth and Beginnings

In Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews Nasser Zakariya , Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, about his

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November 29, 2019 Intellectual history / Literature / pedagogy / US history

Balcony and Scaffold: Literary Theory and High School English, in the 1960s

This is the second installment in our forum on the Academy and Democracy, hosted with Tocqueville 21. Each author approaches

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November 27, 2019 diaspora / Intellectual history / Latin America / Monuments / Museums / religious history / Spain

The myth of la llave in crypto-Jewish Poetry

By Editorial Intern Rachel Kaufman In a 1996 Sage Junior College museum exhibition entitled “Llave: A Key to the Secret,”

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November 25, 2019 German history / Intellectual history / Monuments / US history

Reinhart Koselleck on Modernity, Memorials, and the Meaninglessness of History

By contributing writer Ella Myer Societies have always had to grapple with the meaning of death and of the past.

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November 22, 2019 Britain / Early modern Europe / French history / Intellectual history / Political history / universities

Academy and Democracy Forum: Higher Education and the Stuff of Revolutions

Over the next two months, the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog and Tocqueville 21 will co-publish commentaries in

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