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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 →
