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For those who’ve already raced through the latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas and are still in need of intellectual history, here’s what our editorial board has been reading this week:
Kristin:
Some Valentine’s themed reading:
William Jankowiak, Shelly Volsche, and Justin R. Garcia, “The Half of the World That Doesn’t Make Out” (Sapiens)
A fiery debate for those interested in military strategy, links to oppositional pieces included:
Adam N. Weinstein, ““No, We Can’t Kill Our Way to Victory Despite What 2 Misguided Lieutenant Colonels Might Think” (Task & Purpose)
Franz-Stefan Gady, “Has the US Military Really Lost ‘The Art of Killing’?” (Diplomat)
Marina Koren, “What Color Is a Tennis Ball?” (Atlantic)
 
Derek:
Carol J. Adams, “The Hamburger: An American Lyric” (The Paris Review)
Anton Martinho-Truswell, “To automate is human” (Aeon)
Jennifer Hassan, “Meet Cheddar Man” (Washington Post)
Lisa Bitel, “The ‘real’ St. Valentine was no patron of love” (The Conversation)
 
Eric:
Hisham Aidi “L’anti-orientalisme ambigu de Juan Goytisolo” (Orient XXI).
Ibram X. Kendi “The Soul of W.E.B. Du Bois” (The Paris Review).
Adam Tooze, “Democracy’s Twenty-First-Century Histories” (AdamTooze).
Quinn Slobodian, “Neoliberalism’s Populist Bastards” (Public Seminar)
 
Spencer:
Francis Gooding, “Feathered, Furred or Coloured” (LRB)
Thomas Morris, “Circle of Life” (TLS)
Amanda Dennis, “Life Writing” (LARB)
Jason DeParle, “When Government Drew the Color Line” (NYRB)
Dan Piepenbring, “The Enthralling, Anxious World of Vladimir Nabokov’s Dreams” (New Yorker)