Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section.
John:
André Aciman, “The Life Unlived” (The American Scholar)
Ulka Anjaria, “The Goddess of Loss” (Boston Review)
Sudip Bose, “The Conscience of Adolf Busch” (The American Scholar)
Bettina Maria Brosowsky, »Vergessenes Bauhaus« (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
Guillaume Calafat, « Une histoire de France sans œillères » (La république des livres)
Caryl Emerson, “Writing in the Heat of Crisis” (TLS)
Eberhard Falke, »Ein Grenzgänger zwischen Ordnung und Chaos« (Deutschlandfunk)
Peter E. Gordon, “After the Inferno” (The Nation)
Maxime Laurent, « Paris, capitale anticoloniale » (BibliObs)
Joshua Sperling, “The Transcendental Face of Art” (Guernica)
And finally, a wonderful (and bizarrely prescient) recording of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and his wife Charlotte (in English; YouTube)
Emily:
Max Weber, Science As a Vocation (1922)
Rory Stewart, How to Serve Coffee: Aleppan Manners (LRB)
Alison Light, A Memoir of a Marriage, recording of a lecture about her new memoir (History Workshop)
Mike Ratcliffe, Raising the Stakes in Student Accommodation (More Means Better)
Sarah:
Laurence de Cock, “Todorov et l’école, un plaidoyer contre le racisme, et pour l’humanité” (Mediapart)
Tyler Fleming, “Pan-Africanism Was Peter Abraham’s Country” (Africa is a Country)
Samuel Moyn, “Endless War Watch, Winter 2017” (Lawfare)
Timothy Snyder, “We have at most a year to defend American democracy, perhaps less” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Michael Walzer, “Learning to Listen” (Dissent)
Rob:
Amy Julia Harris, The Religious Freedom Loophole (Reveal)
Benjamin Kearl, Of Laggards and Morons: Definitional Fluidity . . . in Progressive Era Special Education (Education’s Histories)
John Ernest, Life Beyond Biography: Black Lives and Biographical Research (Common-place)
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Resisting Racism and Islamophobia: Lessons from Muslim Slave Narratives (Black Perspectives)
Eric:
Seth Denbo, “Whose Work is it Really?” (Perspectives)
Robin D. G. Kelley, “Black Study, Black Struggle” (Boston Review)
Sarah Marks and Daniel Pick, “Lessons from the 1950s on Mind Control” (Chatham House)
Laura Marsh, “Between the Lines: Ferrante’s Frantumaglia” (Dissent)
Spence:
Stephen Lovell, “Rasputin: Full of Fire and Ecstasy” (The Times Literary Supplement)
Lanre Bakare, “The fire this time—the legacy of James Baldwin” (The Guardian)
Robert Darnton, “The True History of Fake News” (The New York Review of Books)
Paul Veyne “The Oasis of Palmyra” (Lapham’s Quarterly)