Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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The Age of Choice: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Sophia Rosenfeld

by Disha Karnad Jani In this most recent episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sophia Rosenfeld about her new book The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life (Princeton University Press, 2025). Her book explores how the idea of... Continue Reading →

Monday, October 27, 2025

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The Labor Question and the Critique of Caste in Global Intellectual History

by Vishal Verma The word 'caste' derived from the Portuguese term casta (status-group), and it was the sixteenth-century Portuguese colonizers who applied it in India "to what they encountered locally as varna and jati" (1). The Portuguese used the term... Continue Reading →

Friday, October 24, 2025

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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The Intellectual History of Worker Education: An Interview with Edward Baring

by Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch Edward Baring is an intellectual historian of twentieth-century Europe and the Associate Professor of History and Human Values at Princeton University. He is the author of The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968 (Cambridge... Continue Reading →

Monday, October 20, 2025

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“Culture Talk” and Indigenous Economic History

by Miranda Johnson What Mahmood Mamdani once called "culture talk" proliferates in New Zealand: insidious discourses that perpetuate ideas of cultural difference established and fixed by colonial rule. My university's staff training course, Te Rito, is a fine example. "Te... Continue Reading →

Thursday, October 16, 2025

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Congratulations to Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize!

The winner of the JHI's 2024 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize for the best first book in intellectual history is Priyasha Mukhopadhyay for Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire (Princeton University Press). The judging committee offers... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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Literature's Circulation Across Fields and Nations: An Interview with Gisèle Sapiro

by Rose Facchini Gisèle Sapiro's Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur mondial? Le champ littéraire transnational (Seuil, 2024) studies the role of intermediaries (publishers, literary agents), translators, and mediators (critics, literary prizes, and literary festivals) in the making of world authorship. An English... Continue Reading →

Monday, October 13, 2025

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"Authoritarian Neoliberalism": The Concept of Our Time?

by Alexandre Aloy Over the last decade, certain political theorists and critical political economists have increasingly used the term "authoritarian neoliberalism"—sometimes shortened to "authoritarian liberalism"—to make sense of the current political moment. This paradoxical term denotes the conjunction of free-market... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

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When Theology Became Political: An Interview with Brandon Bloch

by Jacob Saliba Brandon Bloch is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He previously served as College Fellow in Modern European History at Harvard University, where he received his PhD in 2018. His writings have appeared in Modern Intellectual... Continue Reading →

Monday, October 6, 2025

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Freedom and the State in Thomas Sowell's America

by Oscar Hughff-Coates In the 1982 revised edition of his book Capitalism and Freedom, economist Milton Friedman reflected on the dramatic shift in American politics between Barry Goldwater's unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1964 and the success of Ronald... Continue Reading →

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