Translating the Canon
By Contributing Writer Julian Koch Unless we are unashamed linguistic chauvinists, some, maybe most, of the works of literature we
The Scottish Covenanters and Catholic Political Thought
By Contributing Writer Karie Schultz. On 28 February 1638, opponents of King Charles I gathered at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh
“How Do You Solve a Problem Like Menasseh?”
By Professor Steven Nadler Read Professor Nadler’s full article from this season’s JHI, “Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel: Facts and
On a Kantian Antinomy in Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought
By Contributing Writer Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire In an interview with Günther Gaus in 1964, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) recalls that she had
October Reading Regrets
This month, we asked our editorial team to reflect on books they wished they had read earlier in their academic
History of Fishing: a Voyage of the Mind into Amphibious Adaptation
By Contributing Editor Luna Sarti In doing research on rivers, one starts to wonder what fish live in the river
Bring out your Papers
The Journal of the History of Ideas, the JHI Blog, and the University of Pennsylvania invite graduate students from all