Toward a Genealogy of Fossil Capitalism: On Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth”
Ed Simon reviews Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization.”
Ed Simon is the editor of Belt Magazine, a staff writer for Lit Hub, and an emeritus staff writer at The Millions. He is a frequent contributor at several different sites including The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, Aeon, Jacobin, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Killing the Buddha, Salon, The Public Domain Review, Atlas Obscura, JSTOR Daily, and Newsweek. He is also the author of several books, including Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain, which will be released in July 2024. He holds a PhD in English from Lehigh University and an MA in literary and cultural studies from Carnegie Mellon University.
Ed Simon reviews Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization.”
Ed Simon reviews Benjamín Labatut’s newest book “The MANIAC.”
Ed Simon reviews Jonathan Healey’s “The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603–1689.”
Ed Simon argues for the necessity of a theoretical “People’s History of Theology.”
Ed Simon reviews Stuart Jeffries’s “Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern.”
Ed Simon reviews Abram C. Van Engen’s “City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism.”
Ed Simon reviews Peter Manseau’s “The Jefferson Bible.”
Ed Simon reviews “Roland in Moonlight,” the recently published book by David Bentley Hart.