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When the intellectual historian István Hont (1947-2013) defected to the United Kingdom in 1975, he knew that he would likely never see his native country or much of his family ever again. He also knew,...
It is a commonplace too often taken for granted that the Enlightenment––in particular Kant’s grounding of morality in reason––was a failure. For some, the Enlightenment’s attempt to clear...
What did it mean to travel in the premodern world – long before passports, maps, or reliable roads? Countless surviving yet often overlooked accounts open a window onto a time when people from Asia,...
On March 4, Mexico took a remarkable step backward: Congress approved a new electoral reform that will, once again, ban consecutive reelection for all elected officials starting in 2030, with the stated...
In 2002, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), a group with deep roots in religious politics, won a decisive electoral victory in Turkey. The party secured a majority of the national vote, formed a...
My book, Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics, addresses an audience of interested scholars and potential readers with the following concentrations: historians of linguistics with attention...
During the 1960s and 1970s, most Latin American republics saw their democratic systems ousted by ruthless military dictatorships. Whether in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, or Uruguay, these regimes...
Imagine waking up in the morning. You read your emails with the morning coffee and use Gmail’s autocomplete feature to compile the answers. Before leaving the house, you ask Siri for the weather forecast,...
Any resident of the United Kingdom will have undoubtedly noticed the proliferation of St George’s Crosses and Union flags of late. Whereas I used to see a few such flags on my drive to work – often...
Even as global politics feels increasingly chaotic, the behavior of the world’s leading powers remains strikingly predictable. New research shows that when great powers intervene abroad, they do so...
I have been writing about Cuban music and popular culture for some time, as an outsider. It is a fraught position: being based in the United States, strongly attracted to Cuban heritage, trying to undertake...
The idea of the “Czech lands” has never been simple. These regions have carried many titles in various languages throughout history and sometimes held radically different meanings, including “the...
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