History

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

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
Girls and Men: On Svetlana Alexievich’s “The Unwomanly Face of War”
Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky consider “The Unwomanly Face of War” by Svetlana Alexievich.
Max Rosochinsky, Oksana MaksymchukSep 8, 2017
The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit
The roots of our social divides can be perceived through the flames of the Detroit riots a half-century ago, says an excerpt of a new book.
Scott KurashigeSep 5, 2017
- History
- Politics
Immigration into the Bosom of America
John Joannes reflects on Tom Gjelten's "A Nation of Nations," recently reissued in paperback.
John JoannesSep 3, 2017
The United States — A Model for the Nazis
Stephen Rohde looks at how the American race laws inspired the Nazis.
Stephen RohdeSep 3, 2017