Back to the Barricades
A history of insurrectionary episodes by Eric Hazan.
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Five Kinds of High-End-LA-centric Madness
In "West of Eden," LA's notable families spin fictions of happy family life, while the reality is generations of trustafarians raised by distracted wolves.
The State That I Am In: Hannah Arendt in America
How did the United States change Hannah Arendt? Richard King's ambitious new book is a welcome addition to a crowded scholarly field of works on Arendt.
Sociology’s Truth?: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Origins of Sociology
In "The Scholar Denied," Aldon Morris builds a case that Du Bois was the first major American "scientific" sociologist.
Remembering Slavery, Again
On two cases of national amnesia about slavery — one British, one American.
The Art of Administration: On Greg Barnhisel’s “Cold War Modernists”
Cold War modernists of the title do not seem to be the painters, sculptors, poets, and novelists who produced the original works.
Space Jew, or, Walter Benjamin Among the Stars
If Walter Benjamin had been quicker to flee the Nazis, he might have stood in India during the twilight years of the Raj and experienced the stars anew.
The Scale of the Beast
The story of Jumbo the elephant, the first circus elephant to become a celebrity.
Mechanical Spectacles
The prehistory of the robot.
Dawn MacKeen on “The Hundred-Year Walk”
Vanessa Hua interviews Dawn MacKeen.
Reading the Middle East
How to satisfy both the Middle East mavens and the curious readers who are so intimidated by the history that they avoid books about the region altogether?
The Case of the Missing Detective: William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes Rediscovered and Restored
Only recently rediscovered in the dusty recesses of the Cinémathèque Française, the 1916 film offers a rare glimpse back through performance history.
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