Interview Nicholas Buccola on The Fire is Upon Us November 14, 2019 On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America's most influential conservative intellectual. Read More
Essay Eric D. Weitz on Human Rights Advances September 23, 2019 History is full of human rights tragedies and abuses, and it can be difficult to feel hopeful about the current state of affairs with those atrocities in mind. But there are success stories as well. Here, Eric Weitz shares a few exceptional human rights advances in recent history. Read More
Interview Eric D. Weitz on A World Divided September 03, 2019 From Greek rebels, American settlers, and Brazilian abolitionists in the nineteenth century to anticolonial Africans and Zionists in the twentieth, nationalists have confronted a crucial question: Who has the 鈥渞ight to have rights?鈥� Read More
Interview Artemis Leontis on Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins August 05, 2019 This is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874鈥�1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Read More
Essay Sketches from Red Meat Republic June 15, 2019 Joshua Specht puts people at the heart of Red Meat Republic鈥攖he big cattle ranchers who helped to drive the nation鈥檚 westward expansion, the meatpackers who created a radically new kind of industrialized slaughterhouse, and the stockyard workers who were subjected to the shocking and unsanitary conditions described by Upton Sinclair in his novel The Jungle. Read More
Essay Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence March 27, 2019 The Nineteenth Amendment, which allowed women to vote in the United States, was ratified 99 years ago. Read More
Essay Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof on Racial Migrations February 28, 2019 Near the end of July in 1885, General Antonio Maceo spoke to an enthusiastic audience at an assembly hall on East 13th Street in Manhattan. The general, one of the most famous leaders of the unsuccessful war for independence in Cuba between 1868 and 1878, was in the city seeking donations to buy arms and munitions for a new war. Read More
Essay What South Korea can learn from Germany February 21, 2018 When athletes from North and South Korea marched onto the field under the same flag in Pyeongchang on February 9, this was not the first time that two fiercely antagonistic states, one socialist and the other capitalist, jointly represent a divided nation at the Olympics. Read More
Interview A. James McAdams on Vanguard of the Revolution August 10, 2017 Vanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. Read More
Essay What McCarthyism can teach us about Trumpism July 05, 2017 Since the election of President Donald Trump, public interest in 鈥淢cCarthyism鈥� has surged, and the focus has shifted from identifying individual casualties to understanding the structural factors that enable the rise of demagogues. Read More
Essay Court Jews, then and now June 06, 2017 The significance of Jew S眉ss's story is to be found in the role it came to play as a parable about Jews' attempts to integrate themselves into modern, non-Jewish society. Read More
