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New MIH Issue: Thomas Cryer analyzes John Hope Franklin’s From Slavery to Freedom (1947), mid-twentieth-century racial liberalism, and the dilemmas of African American history in print bit.ly/42kkQk7

From MIH Archives: Pragmatic utopianism and race? @DrDuncanBell analyzes H.G. Wells’ role as a pragmatist social thinker by focusing on his assault on prevailing theories of race and the reception of his work in the North Atlantic in the early 20th century bit.ly/453otes

An intellectual history of Anthropocene politics? António Ferraz de Oliveira @Ant_FdO analyzes French geographer and imperialist André Siegfried’s environmental geopolitics, from the myth of French rural democracy to the collapse of French global power bit.ly/4n9f4Kp

Now on FirstView: David Chan Smith @davidchansmith reconstructs the intellectual history of Milton Friedman's criticism of corporate social responsibility bit.ly/43GfZsG

From MIH Archives: The politics of time? Mira L. Siegelberg analyzes J.G.A. Pocock’s debt to Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy in The Machiavellian Moment and examines their disparate responses to the discourse of political crisis during the Cold War bit.ly/4flqh6b

From MIH Archives: What do we talk about when we talk about interdisciplinarity? Sarah Maza answers questions on Stephen Greenblatt's work, interdisciplinarity, and the differences between literary critical and historical practices. bit.ly/3T5ENa6

Now on FirstView: Just out of our reach? Jenny Andersson analyzes the future as a problem for the humanities and social sciences in her review essay of Jonathan White’s In the Long Run and Gerard Delanty’s Senses of the Future bit.ly/3D6bI8B

New MIH Issue: How does Durkheim’s thought relate to colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonial theory? George Steinmetz examines the ways Durkheim’s thinking pushed beyond existing French understandings of empire and criticisms of colonialism bit.ly/3PSFH6W

Now on FirstView: Democracy as direct popular legislation? Lucia Rubinelli analyzes how the idea of directly involving the people in the law-making process was discussed during the French Second Republic bit.ly/3Bhx5TV

Now on FirstView: Democratic catastrophe? Alec Dinnin @AlecDinnin analyzes Ortega y Gasset’s postwar political thought and his theorization of European unification as a corrective to the catastrophes of mass democracy bit.ly/3YIYZjX

Now on FirstView: Whither Theory in a Time of Surpassing Disaster? Three distinct reading experiments in ‘living together with the dead’ with special attention to Palestine and Algeria by Omnia El Shakry. This was the 3rd MIH annual lecture in NYC (2024) bit.ly/4jmMvXR

Now on FirstView: How does a collective and hierarchical organization consider individual agency? Thomas Furse analyzes the relationship between living systems theory (LST) and the US army’s military doctrine in the 1980s bit.ly/4gSdCsX

New MIH Issue: Structuralist or Lesbian? William M. Burton analyzes Claude Lévi-Strauss and Monique Wittig’s uses of Rousseau’s work as a fulcrum to move beyond binary thought and respond to the political and epistemological challenges of the postwar era bit.ly/4guc7Ri

Now on FirstView: Does liberalism need free will? Timothy Brennan analyzes Augustinianism, Pelagianism, and the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin bit.ly/44BqqQx

Now on FirstView: Politics and economics in fifth-century Athens? Tim Rood analyzes the intersections of ancient and modern imperialism in Alfred Zimmern’s 1911 monograph The Greek Commonwealth bit.ly/41rlLPQ

Now on FirstView: Anti-anthropocentric humanism? Anin Luo historicizes the emergence of nonhuman personhood and the efforts to dismantle liberalism’s anthropocentrism within the context of shifting humanist politics in the 1970s bit.ly/3GLZiEW

Now on FirstView: Why do we care about the Enlightenment? Sylvana Tomaselli @sylvana_st reflects on the Enlightenment we want in her review essay of J.C.D. Clark’s The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History and Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment bit.ly/4kLQlKC

Now on FirstView: A political economy of state intervention and public good? Cailean Gallagher @apudscotos uncovers and Jacobite origins of James Steuart’s political economy which troubled Smith and influenced French revolutionaries, Hegel, and Marx bit.ly/44vNS1b