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Intellectual History
Interviews with intellectual historians about their new books.
May 18, 2026
Fascismos
Carlos Martins joins the New Books Network to discuss his book Fascism: Beyond Hitler and Mussolini (Desassossego, 2022) (in Portuguese Fascismos: Par…
May 15, 2026
Empire of Skulls
In Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind (Counterpoint Publishing, 2026), Dr. Pa…
May 14, 2026
Jean-Claude Charles: a Reader's Guide
Despite being a major figure of Haitian literature, Jean-Claude Charles (1949-2008) has received relatively little scholarly attention to date. Jean-C…
May 12, 2026
Reconceptualizing War
The field of Strategic Studies, which studies the use and threat of force for political purposes, has seen the repeated rise of concepts to dominate d…
May 11, 2026
The Rise of the Internet
We were joined by Angus Burgin, Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and talked about how the arrival of the Internet remade li…
May 10, 2026
Age of Disaffection
The 1960s in Japan have long been understood as a period of radical political engagement. But as political movements from Old Left Communism to New Le…
May 9, 2026
Syrian Intellectuals in Exile
Zeina Al-Azmeh’s Syrian Intellectuals in Exile: The Dilemmas of Revolution and the Cost of Leaving (Cambridge UP, 2026) captures a group of intellectu…
May 4, 2026
From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands
Today we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, the paradigmatic example was often a slave. In this seminal work, J…
May 4, 2026
Rustin's Challenge
There was no more trenchant and substantive critic of the Left from the Left in the 1960s and 1970s than Bayard Rustin. Some liberals and leftists tod…
May 4, 2026
Nationalism as a Way of Life
While nationalism is a term that is often associated with instability, violence, extremism, terrorism, wars and even genocide, in fact most forms of n…
May 3, 2026
Edge of Catastrophe
Erich Fromm, the prominent twentieth-century public intellectual and psychoanalyst, was recognized for his courageous stand against fascism, racism, a…
May 3, 2026
Adam Smith and Modern Economics
For more than two centuries, economists and researchers have struggled with the conundrum of reconciling Adam Smith’s views on economics and ethics. W…
May 2, 2026
In the Land of the Lacandón
In the mid-1930s the amateur French ethnographer and filmmaker Bernard de Colmont ventured into the mountainous state of Chiapas to study the Lacandón…
May 2, 2026
Atlas's Bones
A major new look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe. Virgil. Chaucer.…
May 1, 2026
Hebrew Orientalism
In the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures wh…
April 30, 2026
The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments
The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Deirdre Loughridge & Dr. Thomas Patteson is a guided tour through centuries of ins…
April 29, 2026
Adam Smith and Modern Economics
For more than two centuries, economists and researchers have struggled with the conundrum of reconciling Adam Smith’s views on economics and ethics. W…
April 27, 2026
A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State
Stephen Sims’ New Atlantis essay examines how emerging technologies are reshaping the structure and authority of the modern nation-state. He argues th…
April 25, 2026
The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton
The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Tiffany Jo Werth explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral…
April 24, 2026
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance
Today, I interview Vin Nardizzi, Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, about his new monograph Marvellous Vegetables in the Engl…