Wednesday, October 28, 2026

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Tempering Liberalism: An Interview with Joshua Cherniss

Joshua L. Cherniss is a political theorist whose research centers on twentieth-century political thought, political ethics, and liberalism. An Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University,

Monday, October 26, 2026

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Model room located inside the Old Patent Office Building in Washington, D.C. 1861. Large, neoclassically styled room with several columns and wooden, glass-fronted cases.

The Idea of Invention in the Law

In early America, “pirates” were afoot in the model room of the Patent Office. Inventors were required to submit models with their patent applications, which

Thursday, October 22, 2026

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Congratulations to Luna Sabastian, Winner of the JHI’s Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize

The Journal of the History of Ideas awards the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history each year. The winner of the 2025 Morris D.

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

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Ghosts of Bandung: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Derek Ide

Numerous visions of a post-imperial future proliferated throughout the mid-twentieth century. For this episode of the In Theory podcast, Disha Karnad Jani talks with Derek Ide about

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

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Congratulations to Nayeli L. Riano, Winner of the JHI’s Martin Jay Article Prize

The winner of the JHI's inaugural Martin Jay Article Prize is Nayeli L. Riano for “The Pueblo and the Politics of History and Historiography in the Writings of

Monday, October 19, 2026

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Detail of “Divine Wisdom watching over a clock.” Miniature from a French translation of the devotional treatise Horologium Sapientiae (“The Clock of Wisdom”) by the German Dominican friar Henry Suso (1295–1366).

Clockwork Mechanics, Maintenance, and Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages

In his 1377 French translation and exegesis of Aristotle’s On the Heavens, the theologian and natural philosopher Nicole Oresme (c. 1320–1382) challenged the prevailing Aristotelian

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