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Eric Brandom
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Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."
Noah Webster: "An equality of property, with a necessity of alienation constantly operating to destroy combinations of powerful families, is the very soul of a republic."
November 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Maybe the anti-federalists had a point about presidential pardons and also the Senate
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Why does Clarissa, the largest Penguin, not simply eat the other Penguins?
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Here is Mahmood Mamdani describing the time in 1965 when the FBI inadvertently introduced him to Karl Marx. This took place in Pittsburgh, and was in response to a SNCC visit to Alabama during which he met Martin Luther King.
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Here's the back
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I'd forgotten I had this. A Parisian zine from 2008.
November 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"Lewis...returned home with so intense a disgust at the scenes he had beheld that he took to poetry"
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
It's old news but I hate so much that platforms like ProQuest and JSTOR are inserting AI in alongside texts like this. Might as well say, why read?
November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Even exotic peasants should go vote, 1906 edition. gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Settembrini on protestantism and Luther's probable wendish-slavic-sarmation blood. The racial imaginary of 19th century liberalism, at least according to Thomas Mann. (Mainly, Wends mentioned).
November 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Have only just started so I don't want to say anything about the words on the inside, but this pink is a delight.
November 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It's significant that the "liberalism" these people all think is dying, irrelevant, collapsed, is not a thing that has ever actually existed
October 31, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Opening paragraphs of Carl Becker's review of the Education of Henry Adams doi.org/10.1086/ahr/...
October 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
to compare to this, painted i believe only a decade earlier
October 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
October 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
How about these two! One after the other in September!
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
These journals loved all sorts of extreme things. Air travel and also submarine business.
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
For those who may possibly be local here in MHK
October 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This reminds me of a different story about scratching things on walls, which is from a text I happen to be teaching tomorrow.
October 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Hannah Höch. Untitled Change of Address (1933 Umgezogen Nach Der Rubensstr. 66). 1933.
Did she make a bunch of these and then fill them out differently each time they had to move? I want to know more! www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
October 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"Hardest of all to meet is the moral challenge of rethinking the meaning of agency, responsibility and blame on a global scale and over many generations." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Neither is le grisou gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Mountain goats are no joke
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
October 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"...a disregard that did not look like tact, consideration, or politeness, but instead like pure indifference or callousness--a tolerance so vast it was almost eerie..."
October 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM