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<em>The Dawn of Everything</em> Is Not a Book About the Origins of Inequality

The Dawn of Everything Is Not a Book About the Origins of Inequality

Or, Why Rousseau and Hobbes Can Suck It

By David Graeber and David Wengrow | November 12, 2021

The Forgotten History of the Brutal, Internecine Battles of the American Revolution

The Forgotten History of the Brutal, Internecine Battles of the American Revolution

H.W. Brands on America’s First Civil War

By H.W. Brands | November 12, 2021

How Does Britain Maintain Relevance in a Changing World?

How Does Britain Maintain Relevance in a Changing World?

Tim Marshall on the Political Future of Post-Brexit England

By Tim Marshall | November 12, 2021

How <em>Homo erectus</em> Was, and Was Not, Like Modern-Day Humans

How Homo erectus Was, and Was Not, Like Modern-Day Humans

Henry Gee Compares Us to Our Ancestors

By Henry Gee | November 12, 2021

Tom Clavin on the Imprisoned Airmen of Buchenwald

Tom Clavin on the Imprisoned Airmen of Buchenwald

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 12, 2021

The True Story of Pearl Hart, Straight-Shooting, Poetry-Writing Woman Bandit

The True Story of Pearl Hart, Straight-Shooting, Poetry-Writing Woman Bandit

John Boessenecker on the Most Infamous Woman in America, Circa 1899

By John Boessenecker | November 11, 2021

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Why We Need to Rethink Afro-Indigenous History in the United States

By Kyle T. Mays | November 11, 2021

On Class Conflict and Public School Boys

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | November 11, 2021

Who will buy the extremely rare concept art book for Jorodowsky’s unproduced Dune?

By Walker Caplan | November 10, 2021

On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

“The years we have gone through have killed something in us.”

By Robert Meagher | November 10, 2021

How Thoreau Launched the Transcendentalist Experiment in Education

How Thoreau Launched the Transcendentalist Experiment in Education

On Creating a Curriculum Based on Freedom

By Robert A. Gross | November 10, 2021

Before Oxford’s Library Was the Finest Institutional Library in Europe, It Was... Kind of a Dump

Before Oxford’s Library Was the Finest Institutional Library in Europe, It Was... Kind of a Dump

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen on the Library’s Transformation Under Sir Thomas Bodley

By Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen | November 10, 2021

Staring Down Horror: On Anna Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Recovering Hope From Suffering

Staring Down Horror: On Anna Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Recovering Hope From Suffering

Michael Ignatieff Examines What It Means to Find Solace in the Face of Destruction

By Michael Ignatieff | November 10, 2021

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen on the History of Libraries

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen on the History of Libraries

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 10, 2021

Ruben Gallego on the Fate of Lima Company During and After Iraq

Ruben Gallego on the Fate of Lima Company During and After Iraq

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 10, 2021

How to Sack an Empire: On Goths, Huns, and the Fall of Rome

How to Sack an Empire: On Goths, Huns, and the Fall of Rome

Dan Jones Maps the Fault Lines of Collapse

By Dan Jones | November 9, 2021

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