Category: History
An Ending: India’s Railway Children
April 16, 2019
Jonah Steinberg— Nobody was tending to the body, which was arrayed on the tracks in at least three recently-separated pieces, its vessels, sinews, and bones protruding, trailing everywhere. The legs… READ MORE
Can Human Beings Understand the Economy?
April 12, 2019
Pascal Boyer— It is in the nature of human beings that they create societies. Philosophers have known and said that much for millennia. These days, scientists can paint a detailed… READ MORE
Who Was Ben Hecht?
April 11, 2019
Adina Hoffman— Ben Hecht was “a genius,” Jean-Luc Godard declared in 1968. “He invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today.” He “wrote stories—and he made history,”… READ MORE
David Garrick and the Club
April 8, 2019
Leo Damrosch— When I got the idea of telling the story of a famous eighteenth-century club that called itself simply “the Club,” I knew that there were incredibly rich resources… READ MORE
She Didn’t Start It: Jane Ellen Panton, a Victorian Marie Kondo
April 3, 2019
Sarah Bilston— Marie Kondo seems to be everywhere these days. Home-dwellers across the planet debate whether the objects in their home “spark joy” and throw out those that don’t —… READ MORE
How Old is the Hebrew Bible?
March 19, 2019
Ronald Hendel and Jan Joosten— The age of the Hebrew Bible is a complicated and controversial topic. For traditionalists, the age of a book is the age of its author… READ MORE
The “Seriatim Practice” of the Supreme Court
March 6, 2019
Paul W. Kahn— We can imagine a state in which courts issued judgments without explanation. The need to settle disputes requires some form of adjudicatory mechanism; it does not… READ MORE
Hitler and Moscow, 1941: A Counter-Factual Speculation
March 4, 2019
Stephen G. Fritz— It is mid-September 1941. The unpredictable late summer weather in Russia has turned in Germany’s favor, as has the military situation. In late August, with the nightmarish… READ MORE
Ep. 70 – White Women and Slavery
February 28, 2019
A look at the true role white women played in slavery and the effects that are still being felt today. Subscribe:Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Soundcloud
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic