History

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

Street Fighting Men: Antifa’s Origins in the ’60s and ’70s
Mark Bray misses opportunities to convincingly rebut antifa skeptics.
Luca ProvenzanoOct 21, 2017
- History
- Politics
Nights of the Mu-Tron III: On Peter Conners’s “Cornell ’77” and the Mystique of the Grateful Dead
Eric Gudas on “Cornell ’77” by Peter Conners and the Grateful Dead’s live acts and recorded legacy.
Eric GudasOct 20, 2017
- History
- Music
To Be Continued, or Who Lost the Civil War?
Keenan Norris on the durability of Confederate kitsch.
Keenan NorrisOct 12, 2017
- History
- Politics
How Skiffle Changed the World: A Conversation with Billy Bragg
Scott Timberg interviews singer-songwriter Billy Bragg about his new book, “Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World.”
Scott TimbergOct 8, 2017
- History
- Music
The Southern Curtain: Kapka Kassabova’s “Border”
Jacob Mikanowski on Kapka Kassabova’s travel memoir “Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe.”
Jacob MikanowskiOct 1, 2017
Tough-Love Urbanism: On Jeremiah Moss’s “Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul”
Sam Hall Kaplan commiserates with Jeremiah Moss, author of “Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul.”
Sam Hall KaplanSep 30, 2017
- Art & Architecture
- History
Lawyers as Pillars of Justice
Dorothy Wolpert considers Owen Fiss's "Pillars of Justice: Lawyers and the Liberal Tradition."
Dorothy WolpertSep 29, 2017
- History
- Law
Hiding in Plain View: The Past and Present of Manipulative Advertising
Sixty years after Vance Packard’s “The Hidden Persuaders,” the persuaders are out in the open.
Mark BartholomewSep 24, 2017
Recline of the West: Couches and Psychoanalysis
How did psychoanalysis get its couch?
Benjamin Aldes WurgaftSep 21, 2017
- History
The Secret History of Dune
Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” an enduring science fiction classic, owes much of its mythology to “The Sabres of Paradise,” an undeservedly forgotten history.
Will CollinsSep 16, 2017
- History
- SF
Philosophy and the Gods of the City: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft’s “Thinking in Public”
What good does the intellectual do in public?
Jon BaskinSep 10, 2017
- History
- Philosophy & Religion
The Intellectual Roots of the Radical Right
Anita Felicelli on Nancy MacLean's "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America."
Anita FelicelliSep 8, 2017