by Christoffer Basse Eriksen As Charles Darwin was vacationing in the Bournemouth area in the autumn of 1862, he noticed an unfamiliar phenomenon. During his leisurely strolls around the clover fields that surrounded the cottage in which he and his... Continue Reading →
by Parker Cotton This think-piece is motivated by an early modern thought experiment found in philosopher Pierre Bayle's (1647–1706) Pensées diverses sur la comète. In it, Bayle asks how visitors from another world would hypothetically interpret Christian behavior. He writes:... Continue Reading →
In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Marc-William Palen, Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, about his new book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton University Press, 2024). Palen begins his story in the 1840s, and shows... Continue Reading →
by Jonathon Catlin Enzo Traverso, a leading scholar of modern European history and thought, is the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. His books include The Origins of Nazi Violence (2003), The End of Jewish... Continue Reading →
by Jared Bly On the occasion of the publication of the second volume of Bataille's Critical Essays, which collects previously untranslated texts by George Bataille, Jared Bly interviewed its editors, Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano. The interview covers Bataille's complex... Continue Reading →
by Daniel Judt In this interview, Daniel Judt speaks with Jonathan Levy, a renowned historian of economic life in the United States, about his recently published book, The Real Economy: History and Theory (Princeton University Press, 2025). The book brings... Continue Reading →
by Stefanos Geroulanos This text was prepared for, and first published in, the Mosse Program Blog. It is reprinted here with their permission. In May 2008, we had dinner somewhere on Sixth Avenue. I can't remember what we ate, nor what... Continue Reading →