If the last year of geopolitical upheaval has taught us anything, it is that the international order is far more fragile than we cared to imagine. When established alliances like NATO fracture under the weight of internal tensions, or when a US President casually proposes treating a sovereign territory as an asset in a real […]
When the intellectual historian István Hont (1947-2013) defected to the United Kingdom in 1975, he knew that he would likely never see his native country or much of his family ever again. He also knew, however, that communism, which had frustrated his hopes of an academic career in Hungary, was a failed political experiment, one […]
G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716) is renowned for his groundbreaking work in mathematics, but among his many accomplishments he was also a mining engineer, an inventor, and a pioneer of historical linguistics. His innovations as a political theorist are less widely recognised, but are of great historical significance. His work establishes the basic concepts of subsequent German political […]
In February 1946, the Indian nationalist leader Narendra Deva (1889-1956), who had just spent three long years being held in prison at Ahmednagar Fort by British authorities, published a short essay on the relationship between democracy and anti-colonialism in South Asia. A close associate of both M.K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, Deva had a well-developed […]
Literate white men of European descent were the most common readers in the past. At least that seems to be the case if we look at the history of books and reading. Indeed, these men wrote, published, and read plenty of books, as a large body of scholarship has shown for Europe – the cradle […]
White-bearded and dignified, Leo Baeck disembarked an airplane in New York’s La Guardia airport in January 1948. The seventy-four year-old rabbi came to preach in the United States as part of the American Jewish Cavalcade, a religious revival program of the Reform movement. As the former official leader of German Jewry under Nazism and a […]
If the last year of geopolitical upheaval has taught us anything, it is that the international order is far more fragile than we cared to imagine. When established alliances like NATO fracture under the weight of internal tensions, or when a US President casually proposes treating a sovereign territory as an asset in a real […]
When the intellectual historian István Hont (1947-2013) defected to the United Kingdom in 1975, he knew that he would likely never see his native country or much of his family ever again. He also knew, however, that communism, which had frustrated his hopes of an academic career in Hungary, was a failed political experiment, one […]
G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716) is renowned for his groundbreaking work in mathematics, but among his many accomplishments he was also a mining engineer, an inventor, and a pioneer of historical linguistics. His innovations as a political theorist are less widely recognised, but are of great historical significance. His work establishes the basic concepts of subsequent German political […]
In February 1946, the Indian nationalist leader Narendra Deva (1889-1956), who had just spent three long years being held in prison at Ahmednagar Fort by British authorities, published a short essay on the relationship between democracy and anti-colonialism in South Asia. A close associate of both M.K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, Deva had a well-developed […]
Literate white men of European descent were the most common readers in the past. At least that seems to be the case if we look at the history of books and reading. Indeed, these men wrote, published, and read plenty of books, as a large body of scholarship has shown for Europe – the cradle […]
White-bearded and dignified, Leo Baeck disembarked an airplane in New York’s La Guardia airport in January 1948. The seventy-four year-old rabbi came to preach in the United States as part of the American Jewish Cavalcade, a religious revival program of the Reform movement. As the former official leader of German Jewry under Nazism and a […]
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