Pentagon Capitalism traces the Cold War evolution of the US military into something resembling a for-profit... Læs mere
Yuppies returns to 1980s New York, when a generation of young bankers, lawyers, and gentrifiers rebuilt the city, and the... Læs mere
The Synagogue at Sardis, discovered in 1962, is the largest known in the ancient world. It caused significant revision of previous assumptions about Judaism in the Roman Empire.... Læs mere
Rebecca Kobrin chronicles the rise and fall of Jewish immigrant banking in America. With few... Læs mere
Challenging longstanding analytical frameworks, historian Jesse Kauffman argues that the emergence of modern nation-states in Eastern... Læs mere
Gospel music has long shaped and reflected Black Americans’ striving toward freedom. But in the 1990s, influenced by megachurches and new theological trends, gospel artists... Læs mere
The 1795 Caribbean uprising against British rule was forgotten for centuries, until now. Paul Friedland shines vivid light on the... Læs mere
Common Justice responds to objections to cosmopolitanism by tracing shared relational norms across disparate societies.... Læs mere
Liberalism is widely mistaken as a comprehensive ideology of individual freedom. In truth, Judith Shklar argues, it is less ambitious but more vital: a fragile bulwark against... Læs mere
Four renowned professors—a physician, a theologian, an anthropologist, and a historian—offer a master class on living in uncertain times. Affirming that wisdom is not a... Læs mere
Bradley Rebeiro explores Frederick Douglass’s overlooked constitutional theory. Like today’s originalists, Douglass saw... Læs mere
Behind politicians’ praise of soldiers’ sacrifice is a troubling willingness to deny them training and equipment, order them to commit crimes, and deploy them to illegal... Læs mere