Interviews with Scholars of Intellectual History about their New Books Support our show by becoming
One of the most recognizable tropes in American society in the past few decades is the scarred war v
Revered by contemporaries and posterity for both his sanctity and his scholarship, Bede (672-735) is
Max Kaiser's book Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism (Palgrave MacMilla
The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire (Bloomsbury, 2
Arya Aryan's book The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (Cambridge
Harvard's Department of Social Relations made history in the 1950s and 1960s as the most ambitious p
The national purpose of the American state is to realize and then sustain the democracy and the equa
Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly,
To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation (Cornell UP, 2023) rethin
What Is to Be Done?In her luminous biography Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life (Yale UP, 201
Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more
The long nineteenth-century--the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World W
Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race (Harvard Univer
Hints on the Art and Science of Government was the first treatise on statecraft produced in modern I
Samuel Jay Keyser, Editor-in-Chief of Linguistic Inquiry, has shared a campus with Noam Chomsky for
What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium?
Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of p
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first
Today’s guest is Jessica Rosenberg, who is the author of a new book titled Botanical Poetics: Early
The Fascist Faith of the Legion "Archangel Michael" in Romania, 1927–1941 (Routledge, 2022) engages
