Monday, February 9, 2026

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The Bookseller and the Buddha: Error, Empire, and the Problem of Origins

by Bhadrajee Hewage In 1829, the English bookseller Edward Upham (1776–1834) published The History and Doctrine of Budhism [sic], the first of a series of studies that offered the earliest comprehensive accounts of Buddhism in the English language. Without ever... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

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The Normativity of Marx's Aristotelian-Hegelianism: An Interview with Michael Lazarus

by Jackson Herndon Michael Lazarus is a Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London. He previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred... Continue Reading →

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

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Monday, February 2, 2026

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Stuart Hall, Ideology, and Neoliberalism's Reactionary Drift

by Lars Cornelissen Intellectual history has long suffered from a materialist deficit. The discipline, as Samuel Moyn argues, is in sore need of "a theory of ideology" that conceptualizes ideas as not merely intellectual but also material forces. Absent an... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

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Harvests of Liberation: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Ahmad Shokr

by Disha Karnad Jani  On this episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ahmad Shokr about his monograph, Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2025). In Harvests of Liberation, Shokr examines Egyptian decolonization through one of the... Continue Reading →

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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Monday, January 26, 2026

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"Spread a Rainbow Over His Disastrous Set of Sun": The Comedy of Colonial Enlightenment

by Arielle Xena Alterwaite Many sperm whale teeth can be found on the island of Nantucket. It is hard to say just how many silver-scaled bodies and tentacular masses once slipped through their widths. Hard, too, is determining their origin;... Continue Reading →

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