Due anni fa ci siamo fatti scappare Acemoglu. Ha preso il premio Nobel per l’economia e non lo abbiamo commentato. Però ci rifacciamo quest’anno. L’occasione è di quelle un po’ mondane, una polemicuzz...

Eric Hobsbawm was a master of what he self-deprecatingly called haute vulgarisation, Oxbridge-inflected confident generalization based on selectively chosen data. He combined this elite education with...

En una iluminadora conferencia, el historiador francés Roger Chartier abordó discusiones fundamentales en torno a la lectura, la IA y la edición de libros.

Scientific Reports - AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably

Academic life is full of churn. The world changes; younger scholars are seized by new questions and, as they hare down...

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.

El ensayista y novelista indio Pankaj Mishra ha escrito algunas de las obras más incisivas sobre las heridas persistentes del imperialismo, las promesas incumplidas de la modernidad y las tradiciones ...

Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?

The story of an essay.

A nuanced new history by Mark Mazower reminds us that antisemitism, an age-old threat to Jewish life, can be warped into a political tool—as we see today, when any criticism of Israel can be deemed an...

We must be honest about the seriousness of the situation we’re in.

La destruction de Gaza remet en question la possibilité d’un véritable travail historiographique sur la Palestine.. Des modèles alternatifs de transmission du récit palestinien ont heureusement vu le ...