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John recently published “Lying in Politics: Hannah Arendt’s Antidote to Anticipatory Despair" in Pub
The Anthem Companion to Karl Jaspers (Anthem Press, 2025) edited by Hans Joas and Matthias Bormuth i
For centuries, Jewish thinkers have asked two parallel questions. First, what is the reasoning behin
Edward Said was one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. A literary schol
An exploration of the mind of one of America's most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant mind
Today I’m speaking with Bernd Roeck about his book, The World at First Light: A New History of the R
In Bookish Words & their Surprising Stories (Bodleian, 2025) by Dr. David Crystal, explore how b
Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders (Indiana UP, 2023)explores Africa's poli
We all know about art forgeries, but why write fake classical music? In Forgery in Musical Compositi
The Unseen History of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2025) locates and describes almost
"Princeton University Press is thrilled to share news of a major new initiative: the publication of
A new approach to the theism-scientism divide rooted in a deeper form of atheism.Western philosophy
The Open Society as an Enemy: A critique of how free societies turned against themselves by J. McKen
In the last third of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized betw
BOOKS UNDER DISCUSSION: Leslie Butler, Consistent Democracy: The "Woman Question" and Self-Governmen
Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial
It is indisputable that Marx began his intellectual trajectory as a philosopher, but it is often tho
In Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums (Penguin, 2025), zoolog
Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even les
Emotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is no exception. For those who iden
