Understanding Society

Timothy Snyder helped Tony Judt to create a "spoken book" during Judt's final months of illness through a truly unique s...

As a way of finding some interesting distraction in the social isolation of Covid-19 I have been reading Paul Fussell's  The Great ...

The means through which academics engage in communication and discussion of their ideas have changed significantly in the past decade th...

Georg Lukács in 1962 used the colorful image of a fictional "Grand Hotel Abyss" to express his disappointment in the theorists...

Bertolt Brecht Ferdinand Lasalle John Maclean Jean Jaures Rene Marx Dormoy Salvador A...

image: "Historians of Past and Present," National Portrait Gallery, London A recent article on J. H. Elliott in the New ...

How do fields like the history of art or the history of philosophy relate to history simpliciter ? Are there similar problems and methods...

What is the role of the intellectual in France in 2010?  And has that role declined in the past several decades?  Have the media and the in...