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Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Political Imagination
Massimo Mazzotti uses a forgotten episode in revolutionary Naples to demonstrate the entanglement of mathematics and politics....
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Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Political Imagination
Massimo Mazzotti uses a forgotten episode in revolutionary Naples to demonstrate the entanglement of mathematics and politics....
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The Ironic Radical: On Hayden White’s “The Ethics of Narrative”
Michael S. Roth ponders Hayden White’s “The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998–2007.”...
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The General Crisis of Whiteness: A Conversation with Nicholas Mirzoeff
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A Serious, Chronic, Complex, and Systemic Disease: On Jennifer Lunden’s “American Breakdown”
Tanya Ward Goodman reviews Jennifer Lunden’s “American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life.”...
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