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Can Feminist Manifestoes of the Past Wake Us Up Today?

A conversation with Breanne Fahs on the lasting lessons of women's anger.

by Soraya Chemaly, Breanne Fah via Literary Hub on March 24, 2020

Why We Should Remember William Monroe Trotter

A pioneering black editor, he worked closely with African-American workers to advance a liberatory black politics.

by Keisha N. Blain via Jacobin on December 29, 2019

Story-Shaped Things

Historians tell stories about the past. A new book argues that those stories are often dangerously wrong.

by Jonathan W. Wilson via Contingent on October 16, 2019

Political cartoon lampooning Thomas Paine and his beliefs

America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion

Thomas Paine, the most radical of American revolutionaries, perhaps most fully understood the millennial potential of the new Republic.

by Ed Simon via The Revealer on December 20, 2018

Network Visualisations Show What We Can and What We May Know

On the intellectual history of the lines and arrows that have become a standard feature of the news media.

by Christopher Warren via Aeon on June 18, 2018

Human Rights and Neoliberalism

How is it that the era of neoliberalism coincides almost perfectly with the triumphant rise of a discourse of human rights?

by Nils Gilman via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 8, 2018

Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism

The bestselling guru's ancient wisdom is unmistakably modern – a disturbing symptom of the social malaise he sets out to cure.

by Pankaj Mishra via New York Review of Books on March 19, 2018

"Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky," a painting by Benjamin West (ca. 1816).

Flash Mob: Revolution, Lightning, and the People’s Will

Why French revolutionaries, in need of an image to represent the all important “will of the people”, turned to the thunderbolt.

by Kevin Duong via The Public Domain Review on November 9, 2017

Hands holding vials of chemicals.

The Empire’s Amnesia

When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.

by Greg Grandin, Jacobin via Jacobin on May 19, 2017

Walden Pond through the trees.

Darwin's Early Adopters

A new book argues that Darwin failed to capture the American imagination because of the untimely death of Henry David Thoreau.

by John Hay via Public Books on April 5, 2017

Illustration of angry communist with caption "Primer for Free Men."

I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill

History books are rewritten to focus on the underdog. Surely that is a victory for the common people...or is it?

by Stephen Duncombe via The Baffler on January 13, 2013

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