Intellectual History

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The culminating moment of Alice, when the pretense of power is exposed and collapses. Carroll was very concerned throughout his life with giving a wide audience of people, not just his Christ Church students, the tools of logical thinking so that they would not be the victims of demagogues and ideologies.
Everyone’s Inner Child Turns 150 Years Old
Riot police officers in Kyiv, December 2013
A Postcard from Kyiv: A Year of Reckoning for Ukraine
Close-up of the mural commemorating works of A.J. Muste on the War Resisters League Building in New York, New York.
"There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism
Rodin's "The Thinker"
Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower
The Thinker by Auguste Rodin
Graduate Students Discuss Public Intellectualism
Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America, by Susan Schulten Book cover.
From Sea to Shining Sea
Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe , by Margaret Jacobs book cover.
Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe
Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge, by Roxanne L. Euben book cover.
Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Charles Thorpe Book Cover
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs Book Cover
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
Cover of Caesar A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke.
A Man for All Seasons
Cover of Trotsky A Biography by Robert Service.
Trotsky: A Biography
Cover of Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography by M. Hanioğlu.
Kemalism: "The Religion of the Turk"
Cover of A Wicked Company The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom.
Dangerous (Thinking) Liaisons
A young man stays connected on his cell phone as he strolls by a store advertising the Beatles' music on Apple's online store.
Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore
A cover of the Koran, the holy book of Islam.
What's in a Name?: The Meaning of 'Muslim Fundamentalist'
The Obama family attending a 2014 Easter service at 19th Street Baptist Church.
Democrats Revive Our Civic-Religious Traditions
Spanish and French troops in Afghanistan in 2005.
Calling Al-Qaeda Fascist Doesn’t Make It So
Portrait of Thomas Paine from 1792.
Paine’s Counsel for a New Time that Tries Men’s Souls
Pakistan to US Student Exchange Program, July 2011.
Captive Scholarship Serves Nobody Well
The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
With God on Our Side
Portrait of Thomas Paine from 1793.
Common Sense: Salute Paine, Not Jefferson, on the Fourth
painting of John Donne by Isaac Oliver
Towards a Charter of Responsibilities