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How did the American Founders understand religious liberty? Why should students study the Founding?
What are the "great books"? What makes them great? Is the cultivation of an intellectual life especi
Patrick Bixby's book Nietzsche and Irish Modernism (Manchester UP, 2022) demonstrates how the ideas
In Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network (U Chicago Press, 2020), Natilee Harren
Even people who still refuse to accept the reality of human-induced climate change would have to agr
How did Foucault’s thought develop in the 1960s? In The Archaeology of Foucault (Polity, 2022) Stuar
The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World (Oxford UP, 2022
After their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardi Jews such as Isaac Abravanel, Abraham Saba, and I
Folúkẹ́ Adébísí’s Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility (Bristol
Mike Jay's Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind (Yale UP, 2023) is a provocative and
Jews and Christians alike have made Psalm 91 one of the most commonly used and cited parts of the Bi
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon's edited volume After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the
Americans have always had mixed emotions about schooling: in popular literature and television, teac
The socialist activist E. T. Kingsley occupies an odd place in the history of labor and the left. Of
The seventeenth century Reformed Orthodox discussions of the work of Christ and its various doctrina
The emergence of Haiti as a sovereign Black nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people throughout
Today I talked to Ching Keng about his book Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagata
Political Theorist Lee Trepanier has a new edited volume focusing on thinking about human responses
Edward Mead Earle was a historian, scholar, professor, and international relations expert; he was al
