History

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

“Weapons Not of the Weak, but of the Strong”: On Nikolay Koposov’s “Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia”
Douglas Smith on “Memory Laws, Memory Wars,” by Nikolay Koposov, which “makes clear the dangers in trying to legislate our understanding of the past.”
Douglas SmithApr 8, 2018
- History
- Law
Fifty Years of Beyond Baroque: 1968–2018
Johanna Drucker celebrates the 50th anniversary of Beyond Baroque, one of Los Angeles’s core cultural institutions.
Johanna Drucker Apr 5, 2018
- History
- Poetry
Out of the Mystic
Jeff Melnick on Ryan H. Walsh’s “Astral Weeks,” a history of Van Morrison’s iconic album.
Jeff MelnickApr 3, 2018
- History
- Music
“Johnny Appleseed” and the Revision of American Masculinity
Ashley Rattner reviews Paul Buhle and Noah Van Sciver's graphic biography "Johnny Appleseed."
Ashley RattnerMar 24, 2018
- Comics
- History
“Women with the Gun”: American Women Journalists and the Women’s Battalion of Death
Angela Shpolberg on Maria Bochkareva and the Women’s Battalion of Death, as seen through the eyes of American women journalists.
Angela ShpolbergMar 23, 2018
The Long March of the Corporate Rights Movement
Ryan Azad reviews Adam Winkler's "We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights."
Ryan AzadMar 22, 2018
Banking Against (Black) Capitalism: On “The Color of Money”
Armond Towns and Carolyn Hardin considers Mehrsa Baradaran's recent book.
Armond Towns, Carolyn HardinMar 19, 2018
- Economics and Finance
- History
“Young Marx” at the Bridge Theatre London: An Interview with the Writer Clive Coleman
Jason Barker speaks to Clive Coleman, co-writer with Richard Bean of “Young Marx,” a play about Marx and his family’s early years in London.
Jason BarkerMar 16, 2018
The Last Journey of Karl Marx
Jürgen Neffe on the last journey of Karl Marx, translated by Shelley Frisch.
Jürgen NeffeMar 16, 2018
Marx in Bizarro World
The dominant image of Marx that one is confronted with today is not simply distorted but inverted. Jason Read on Marx in Bizarro World.
Jason ReadMar 16, 2018
I Am Not a Marxist
Ana Stankovic on the un-tragic wrongness of Marx’s thought.
Ana StankovicMar 16, 2018
Marx’s Dyslexia
“How should Marx be read today? Or, rather, which Marx do we need to read?” Agon Hamza on “Marx’s Dyslexia.”
Agon HamzaMar 16, 2018