learning curve

  Thinking that it might be good to teach with, I recently looked up the essay from which the phrase “usable past” is generally said to come...

Samuel Moyn, Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times . Yale, 2023.   Our intellectual landscape is sha...

Daniel Halévy’s 1931 Décadence de la liberté begins with the confession or boast that the author has only voted once in his life (in 1919)...

The American Historical Review is now taking an interest in games. In the most recent issue, Andrew Denning provides “ an autoethnographic...

Some people—even Anglophones—do still read Charles Péguy. Even write about him . Antoine Compagnon champions him, which is perhaps enough t...