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Category Archives: History
The Great Delusions in History Theory
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
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David Armitage and the History of Political Thought
David Armitage (born February 1, 1965) is a British historian of intellectual history, international history, Atlantic history, global history, and the history of political thought. He holds the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professorship of History at Harvard University, where he has … Continue reading
The Storyteller’s Empire: Yuval Noah Harari and the Authority of Synthesis
Yuval Noah Harari (born February 24, 1976) holds a peculiar place in contemporary intellectual life. He trained as a medieval military historian and now ranks among the most widely read interpreters of the human past and the human future. His … Continue reading
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Joan Wallach Scott and the Politics of the Category
Joan Wallach Scott (born December 18, 1941) is an American historian whose work changed the study of gender, feminism, and modern French history. She established gender as a central category of historical analysis rather than a specialized corner of women’s … Continue reading
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Lynn Hunt and the Cultural Turn
Lynn Avery Hunt (b. 1945) remade the study of the French Revolution and the wider practice of cultural history. Her work pulled historical scholarship away from explanations built on class and economic structure toward the study of culture, language, symbol, … Continue reading
The Keeper of the Dead: Timothy Snyder’s Hero System
On March 14, 2023, the Russian delegation calls the United Nations Security Council into session to discuss Russophobia. The Russians want the floor to argue that the world hates Russians and that the hatred explains the resistance Russia meets in … Continue reading
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How Wide the We: David Hollinger and the Quarrel Over Solidarity
David Hollinger (b. April 25, 1941) keeps an office on a hill above the Bay, and the hill matters to the story even now that he has retired from it. Berkeley sits in the line of sight of the whole … Continue reading
Nancy MacLean and the History of Concentrated Power
Nancy MacLean (b. 1959) is an American historian of the twentieth-century United States whose scholarship treats the relationship among democracy, inequality, race, labor, and organized political power. She built her reputation on studies of White resistance to civil rights, the … Continue reading
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Samuel Moyn: The Historian of Contingency
Samuel Moyn (b. 1972) is an American intellectual historian and legal scholar whose books have reshaped how scholars and the public understand human rights, liberalism, international law, the conduct of war, and the place of moral language in politics. His … Continue reading
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Quinn Slobodian: Historian of How Capitalism Is Governed
Quinn Slobodian (b. 1978), a Canadian intellectual historian, has remade the study of neoliberalism, globalization, international economic governance, and the contemporary right, and over the past decade he has become an influential historian of political economy writing in English. His … Continue reading