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Many Americans fear the power of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats—the “deep state.” Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule seek to calm those fears by... Læs mere
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In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution was unfolding,... Læs mere
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Many Americans assume that the country was founded by skeptics of “big government,” who saw minimal state power as freedom’s prerequisite. Annelien de Dijn takes on this myth.... Læs mere
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What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail,... Læs mere
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The nation-state and the colonial state have always been the same thing: the ethnic and religious majorities of the former... Læs mere
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The Electoral College has always been controversial. A compromise measure from day one, it has been a target of reformers in Congress since the early 1800s.... Læs mere
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A longstanding tradition holds that universities in early modern Italy suffered from cultural sclerosis and... Læs mere
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Amid the nationalization of Russian imperial politics, Jews developed a powerful version of race science and biopolitics as a... Læs mere
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Central banks are supposed to stabilize markets, yet decades of mounting central bank power have seen wave after wave of financial crisis. Leon Wansleben offers novel explanations for the rise of central banks and the problematic implications of their finance-dependent policies.
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Lu Xun was China’s greatest literary modernist and a key thinker of the early twentieth century. This new translation assembles some of Lu Xun’s essays... Læs mere
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Travis Zadeh revives the work of the thirteenth-century Persian scholar Qazwini, whose Wonders and Rarities was for... Læs mere
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As US power grew after WWI, officials and nonprofits joined to promote citizen participation in world affairs.... Læs mere