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November 21, 2024
Civic Solitude
An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of coll…
November 10, 2024
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods
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November 8, 2024
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I spoke with Hannah Gabel, Literary Director of the Texas Book Festival. The Festival first began in 1995, and has since donated over $3.5 million to …
November 8, 2024
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November 6, 2024
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October 26, 2024
In Search of the Romanovs
In Search of the Romanovs: A Family's Quest to Solve One of History's Most Brutal Crimes (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) is a thrilling, true-lif…
October 25, 2024
Win or Else
In Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985 (Indiana University Press, 2024), Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture…
October 23, 2024
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October 23, 2024
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October 16, 2024
The Power and the Money
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October 2, 2024
The Cities We Need
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September 20, 2024
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August 20, 2024
Default
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August 7, 2024
The GiveWell Method
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July 20, 2024
Goliath
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July 20, 2024
Ecological Solidarities
Operating on the premise that our failure to recognize our interconnected relationship to the rest of the cosmos is the origin of planetary peril, Eco…
July 20, 2024
The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
Original and deeply researched, The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700-1827 (Cambridge Unive…
July 4, 2024
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June 12, 2024
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May 16, 2024
The Turn to Process
In The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Kunal M. Parker explores the ma…
May 12, 2024
In the Shadow of War and Empire
In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey (Brill, 2023) offers a site-specific history…
May 11, 2024
Before Maimonides
All can agree that the achievement of Moses Maimonides (d. 1204) set the standard for subsequent works of "Jewish philosophy". But just what were the …
April 25, 2024
Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer
Anthony Valerio's novel Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer (Grailing Press, 2024) tells the story of Walter Michael Gregory. Call him Wally. Wa…
April 24, 2024
J. N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism
J.N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism (Oxford University Press, 2024) describes the work of one of the most important and under-studied theolo…