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America was born in an age of political revolution throughout the Atlantic world, a period when the
Look at a map of the world and you'll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not
“It is not events that disturb us, but what we believe about them.” Is this true? Well, apparently P
Joshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logic of academic
The Brahma-sutra, attributed to Badaraya (ca. 400 CE), is the canonical book of Vedanta, the philoso
In the early twentieth century, a new, American scripture appeared on the scene. It was the product
Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely rega
Few people would describe themselves as antisemites. And yet many Jews living in Europe and the US b
What made George Washington the "greatest man in the world"? What is his legacy outside the United S
Freddy Foks's Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Soci
Sergiu Klainerman is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. Born in co
Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious n
While Immanuel Kant’s account of human reason is well known and celebrated, his account of human ani
The ideas of equity and equality are all over the news, yet there seems to be little agreement on wh
Matthew Mewhinney's Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) explore
Daniel Neofetou's Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War (Bloomsbury,
Philosophy of action in the context of Classical China is radically different from its counterpart i
Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting d
Jonathan Brown’s Islam and Blackness (Oneworld Academic, 2022) is a thorough and thoroughly riveting
In 1941, Dorothy Sayers, Christian apologist, author of The Mind of the Maker, and even more famous
