Dehumanization and Extirpation: Hatred and Sacrifice in History
Among the many key insights contained in Kate Manne’s 2017 Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (previously written about here by Lilian Calles Barger) is a striking argument about the Read more
View ArticleA Conversation with Ally Sheedy
On behalf of the 2019 conference committee for the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, I’m pleased to announce some delightful news: author, actress and activist Ally Sheedy will be joining Read more
View ArticleControllable Laughter: An Obituary of Jeffrey Hart
The closing paragraph in Jeffrey Hart’s New York Times obituary is a quote, one given by Hart to a former pupil of his, from a 2006 interview. It reads: My Read more
View Article“All Work, No Pay”: Smithsonian Exhibit Presents Women’s Labor History...
Memorial Day weekend brings tourists from across the country to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Desire for air conditioning, a bathroom, or water entice even more visitors from...
View ArticlePreviewing Forthcoming US Intellectual History Books
Want to feel overwhelmed? Try to keep up with the new work to be published over the next six months in US intellectual history and adjacent fields—yikes! There is so Read more
View ArticleTerms of Endurance
In 1968, the English department at Stanford University employed thirty-eight tenure-track professors, one visiting professor, and five lecturers. Folding in the two emeritus professors listed in the...
View ArticleLate Bloomers and Large Adult Sons: The Culture of Young Men after the Recession
When the college cheating scandal broke earlier this year, one of my friends pointed out a highly personal wrinkle in the story that now strikes me as making a much Read more
View ArticleThe Political and the Personal: An Interview with Emily S. Johnson about...
Andy Seal: One of the key ideas that runs through your book is how important a more flexible reading of the “submission doctrine” was to these women and to their Read more
View ArticleReview of *The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists*
Male voices dominate the canon of American political thought. Lisa Pace Vetter’s book, The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists, examines the political theories of seven women who were...
View ArticleRestorative Economics, sort of
A friend of mine, who is having an especially difficult year, told me a story that he attributed to the fiction of John Irving. This was a story about people Read more The post Restorative Economics,...
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