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The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington,
A discussion with the the author of Citizenship (from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series), Dim
Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth-Century Malabar (Cambridge UP, 2023) inves
In Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse (MIT Press, 2022), Craig Leonard argues for the contempo
How did liberationist Christianity develop in Argentina between the 1930s and early 1970s? And how d
Why is education so important in a democracy? Are democracies capable of producing the citizens they
Teena Purohit’s new book Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism (Princeton University Pr
Is the Declaration of Independence unique? Does the Declaration prescribe a form of government? What
In For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod (Brill, 2017), Ba
Evert van der Zweerde in his 2022 book Russian Philosophy: Anarchy, Authority, Autocracy (Edinburgh
Ferenc Hörcher's book Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy (Palgrave Macmilla
Although Kant considered him the greatest critic of his work, and Fichte thought him the most impres
An Indian Theory of Defeasible Reasoning: The Doctrine of upādhi in the Upādhidarpaṇa (Harvard Unive
Was Socrates guilty? What is the relationship between the philosopher and the city? What does it mea
Why and how should we read Plato? Why did Plato write dialogues? Is Plato a friend to democracy? Dr.
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches (Lexin
Barak S. Cohen's The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia (Brill, 2011) c
"The narrative that old books are worthless is designed to keep you from discovering that they are n
'Overcoming the war of religion between analytics and continentals with a brand-new metaphysical ins
On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. Allen C. Guelzo, Director of