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'Of This World'—On the Altar Hosts and 'Commonweal' contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor chat with professor and author Jonathan Sheehan, professor of European History at UC Berkeley about the history of sacrifice...

Here is the new episode of the podcast I cohost with Nick Tabor called, "Of This World." Our guest is the intellectual historian Jonathan Sheehan. We discuss his important new book "On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular": www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/worl...

'Of This World'—On the Altar Hosts and 'Commonweal' contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor chat with professor and author Jonathan Sheehan, professor of European History at UC Berkeley about the history of sacrifice...

Here is the new episode of the podcast I cohost with the Nick Tabor called, "Of This World." Our guest is the intellectual historian Jonathan Sheehan. We discuss his important new book "On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular": www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/worl...

Opinion | The Nation Faces a Crisis. Colleges Have a Unique Role to Play.

Important OpEd from Michael Roth. The demobilization of students has left a gaping hole in our democratic defenses. Michael is organizing to correct that. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...

Ulrich Plass with an excellent MIH review essay re new books on Marxism: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

'Of This World'—Revelation and Reporting In the third episode of our special podcast series, ‘Commonweal’ contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor speak with investigative reporter Daniel Silliman.

A pleasure to have the reporter Daniel Silliman on the podcast to discuss his tenure at Christianity Today, the current state of Evangelicalism and more: www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/worl...

45 Years of French Philosophy - The Philosophers' Magazine Vincent Descombes looks back on his history of French philosophy from 1933 to 1978.

“Vincent Descombes looks back, after another 45 years, on his history of French philosophy from 1933 to 1978, published in English as Modern French Philosophy (1980) and in French as Le Même et l’Autre (1979).”: philosophersmag.com/45-years-of-...

How Was Sociology Invented? A conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah about the religious origins of social theory and his recent book Captive Gods.

My first interview for The Nation this year is with Kwame Anthony Appiah and concerns his new book on the religious origins of sociology titled: “Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of Social Science”: thenation.com/article/cult...

How Was Sociology Invented? A conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah about the religious origins of social theory and his recent book Captive Gods.

My first interview for The Nation this year is with Kwame Anthony Appiah and concerns his new book on the religious origins of sociology titled: “Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of Social Science”: thenation.com/article/cult...

Jewish Anti-Zionism A collection of texts illustrating the complex reasons why Jews have contested or rejected the Zionist ideal over more than a century

A forthcoming edited collection from Princeton University Press: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Public Scholars Fellowship | The Moynihan Center Cultivating bold ideas. Forging the next generation of public-service leaders.

Call for Applications for the Moynihan Public Scholars Fellowship based out of City College in NYC. Highly recommend applying: moynihancenter.ccny.cuny.edu/programs/pub...

Jonathan Rée · We are all layabouts now: Kojève v. Hegel Alexandre Kojève described his book on Hegel as ‘very bad’, and he had a point. His take on the Phenomenology of...

Excellent LRB review of two new books on the life and thought of Alexandre Kojève : “Kojève ‘adored’ international negotiations, but did not take them too seriously: for him they were essentially a ‘superior game’, which he played ‘like the devil in holy water’.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A Return to Liberal Democracy About: Justine Lacroix, Les valeurs de l'Europe. Un enjeu démocratique, Collège de France éditions

On Justine Lacroix: "Popular sovereignty and the rule of law are inseparable: the idea that there could be “illiberal democracies” is groundless and plays into the hands of populists.": booksandideas.net/A-Return-to-...

The intellectual historian Camilla Boisen has written an extensive review article of my and Lauren Benton‘s books on war and genocide, bringing different fields into conversation. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

American Charisms In the second episode of 'Of This World,' a special podcast series co-hosted by 'Commonweal,' contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor speak with Molly Worthen, author of 'Spellbound.'

The latest episode of the podcast I cohost with Nick Tabor is now available. We interviewed Molly Worthen, a leading historian of American religion, about her new book: Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump": www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/amer...

Cold War liberalism: an attempt to reconcile the liberal project with the traumas of the 20th century. Par Nathan GuezDaniel Jenkins is a professor at Westlane University specializing in intellectual history. Influenced by Samuel Moyn, his work focuses on the concept of Cold War liberalism—an intellect...

Thanks to Nathan Guez—a very sharp student at Sciences Po—for interviewing me: paulloussot4.wixsite.com/le-monde-d/p...
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The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state | Jan-Werner Müller The Venezuela incursion is in line with this logic, made even plainer as the US eyes Greenland

The Donroe Doctrine: Extortion, Extraction, Exploitation (and Extradition, if needed).

Thrilled to have Alden Young join Modern Intellectual History as an editor: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What Justice on a Burning Planet? Andreas Malm and Thea Riofrancos joined The Nation’s Wen Stephenson in an urgent conversation about the left and the climate emergency.

Wen Stephenson, Thea Riofrancos, and Andreas Malm discuss the "deadly silence and denial" creating a veil around the climate crisis.
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Yes, we do paired reviews. My address is www.wesleyan.edu/about/direct...

Would love to hear about what you have in mind

Hope to commission about a dozen reviews/essays for Modern Intellectual History in 2026–especially interested in new books/essay ideas focusing on Asia, Africa and South America but open to all ideas. Do reach out if you have one: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Capitalism’s Toxic Nature A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.

My last Nation interview for this year is with Alyssa Battistoni and concerns her important new book, “Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

1 A Mental Map of Capital’s Domain 2 The Circulation of Labour Capacity and the Origin of Profit 3 Technological Dynamism and the Productivity of Labour 4 Marx in Manchester 5 The Falling Rate and Rising Mass of Profit 6 The Equalization of the Profit Rate 7 Masses in Motion 8 The Production of Space, Time and Place 9 Social Reproduction and the Circulation of Labour Power 10 Extractivism and the Metabolic Relation to Nature 11 Fixed Capital and the Consumption Fund 12 The Circulation of Interest-­ Bearing Capital 13 The Troublesome Case of Fictitious Capital 14 Accumulation by Dispossession 15 The Return of the Rentier 16 The State-­Finance Nexus 17 The Geopolitics of Capital Appendix: Piero and Me

Here's the table of contents of The Story of Capital:

Who has a right to the moon economy? Whoever gets there first. “You can't own part of the moon, but you can own the stuff that the moon contains,” said professor Mary-Jane Rubenstein.

"You can't own part of the moon, but you can own the stuff that the moon contains." — Wesleyan University's @mjrubenstein.bsky.social joins @marketplace.org to discuss who has a right to the moon economy #space

Thank you for following my work so closely.

holler: read the first graphs of the william james piece, lol.

Conscription for Peace What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.

hi joe. that piece is clearly inspired by the previous one on William James, the great democratic pragmatist. www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...

Lol.

Issue 47.22 is now online, featuring:

@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.

Read online at www.lrb.co.uk