Wednesday, November 4, 2026

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Detail of “Astrocytes in the hippocampus of the human brain,” Ramón y Cajal

Autonomy in the Age of Automaticity: An Interview with David Bates

David Bates is a professor in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. His research spans the intellectual history of European political and legal thought

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Monday, November 2, 2026

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What Ecology Demands of the Subject

Since the Club of Rome’s computer-modeling report The Limits to Growth (1972), debates about ecological crisis have repeatedly turned on the question of “limits.” On one side

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

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