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Here are some pieces from around the internet that have caught the eyes of our editorial team this week: Derek: “Garbage, Genius, or Both? Three Ways of Looking at Infinite Jest” (LitHub) Editors, “Debating the Uses and Abuses of ‘Neoliberalism’:… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Molly Wilder Autonomous man is–and should be–self-sufficient, independent, and self-reliant, a self-realizing individual who directs his efforts towards maximizing his personal gains. His independence is under constant threat from other (equally self-serving) individuals: hence he devises rules… Continue Reading →
Here are a few pieces that have caught the attention of our editorial team this week: Sarah: Andy Beckett, “Post-Work: The Radical Idea of a World Without Jobs,” (Guardian) Alison Croggan, “Now The Sky is Empty,” (overland) Richard Eldridge, “What… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Pranav Kumar Jain Since the publication of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, Professor Samuel Moyn has emerged as one of the most prominent voices in the field of human rights studies and modern intellectual history…. Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Alison McManus For less populated fields of history, a conference designed for intellectual exchange can occasionally double as an existence proof. The workshop for the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry must have appeared to… Continue Reading →
Here are a few pieces that have caught the attention of our editorial team this week: Derek Brandon M. Terry, “MLK Now” (Boston Review) Teresa Kroeger et al., “The state of graduate student employee unions” (Economic Policy Institute) Lewis Lapham,… Continue Reading →
By Editor Derek O’Leary, in conversation with curator Diana Greenwold It can be easy to imagine the early American republic as rushing headlong into the future during its first half-century—westward with the suppression of Indian society, seaborne to new markets… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Sarah Pickman In 1848 Peter Halkett, a lieutenant in the British Royal Navy, published his designs for a most curious invention. Halkett was interested in the numerous exploratory expeditions the Navy had sent to the Canadian Arctic… Continue Reading →
Here are a few of the pieces the team at the JHI blog have been reading over the last week: Derek “The World in Time”: Interview with Eric Foner (Lapham’s Quarterly) Anton Jaeger, “The Myth of Populism” (Jacobin) Richard… Continue Reading →
by contributing writer Jonathon Catlin This post is adapted from the author’s contribution to a panel discussion entitled “The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming” hosted by the Leo Baeck Institute, New York City on October 25, 2017, featuring co-panelists… Continue Reading →
