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Assistant Prof at Wesleyan University Interview series for The Nation Essays and reviews editor at Modern Intellectual History

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"[L]’Empereur était pressé de me montrer une carte de Paris, sur laquelle on voyait tracées par Lui-Même, en bleu, en rouge, en jaune et en vert, suivant leur degré d’urgence, les différentes voies nouvelles qu’il se proposait de faire exécuter..." Is there such a thing as a Caesarist City?
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The Caesarist City | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
The Caesarist City - Volume 23 Issue 3
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What comes after the crisis of liberalism? Apparently, The Catholic Century: www.commonwealmagazine.org/steinmetz-je...
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The Catholic Century
The Catholic Church is now the default option for those seeking a Christianity capable of guiding a different kind of politics.
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have a Substack post about my forthcoming intellectual biography of Raymond Aron: substack.com/@dsj2110/not...
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Thinker of World Order: An Intellectual Biography of Raymond Aron
Raymond Aron; Liberalism; Biography; Intellectual History; World Order
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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wesleyan University’s President @msroth.bsky.social sits down with alumni working in law, journalism, academia, advocacy, and the arts to discuss how the fundamental skills and values of a Wesleyan education can help us navigate this complicated moment. #highered
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The World Needs More Wesleyan: Conversations with President Roth
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My latest Substack post concerns a forthcoming volume that I coedited, the rise of secular studies in the 1990s/2000s, and whether it prefigured populist critiques of liberalism that emerged in the 2010s: historyofnow.substack.com/p/the-secula...
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The Secular In History
Secularism; Political Theology; Crisis of Democracy; Populism; Socialism
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A truly fantastic new Modern Intellectual History article by Alexander Zevin on why empire went missing from the so called French liberal revival of the 1970s: "Ferry Retrouvé: Leaving the History of Empire Out of the “Liberal Moment” in France": www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Ferry Retrouvé: Leaving the History of Empire Out of the “Liberal Moment” in France | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Ferry Retrouvé: Leaving the History of Empire Out of the “Liberal Moment” in France
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My latest interview is with Duncan Kelly and concerns his incredible new global intellectual history of WWI titled: “Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics." Read the extensive interview here: historyofnow.substack.com/p/a-new-inte...
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A New Intellectual History of The First World War: My Interview with Duncan Kelly regarding his new book, “Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics”
First World War, Intellectual history, politics, economics, modernism, empire, Anthropocene, revolution, democracy, Keynes, W.E.B. Du Bois
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Have a new Substack post about teaching the "history of the present": historyofnow.substack.com/p/syllabus-f...
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Syllabus for “History of the Present” course
Presentism, Historical Comparisons, Fascism Debate, AI, Neoliberalism
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 25/08/2026
A democracy in doubt about itself is often tempted to retreat into a smaller, more exclusive story of its founding but what we need to do is open it up much wider. bit.ly/4xmSFOA
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Do We Need a New Approach to Our Origin Stories?
An interview with historian Ned Blackhawk on the United States’ contested founding.
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My latest interview for The Nation is with the historian Ned Blackhawk. We discuss why he believes the study of American history needs a new theoretical framework, the US founding, U.S. constitutional law treats tribal sovereignty, etc. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Do We Need a New Approach to Our Origin Stories?
An interview with historian Ned Blackhawk on the United States’ contested founding.
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Non-fiction books appearing this Fall that caught my eye: open.substack.com/pub/historyo...
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Fall 2026 Non-Fiction Books (that have caught my eye)
History, Economics, Politics, Religion, and Philosophy Books for Fall 2026
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Looks great!
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Started a Substack called "The History of Now." Features new/forthcoming books, interviews, my podcast and academic work. etc. Here's the 1st post. The 2nd will be an interview with Duncan Kelly about his important new book on WWI: open.substack.com/pub/historyo...
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The History of Now
A Resource for New and Forthcoming Books, New Articles, Interviews, Podcast, Archival finds and more...
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Checkout the new issue of Modern Intellectual History. Pieces by Anton Jäger, Jennifer Pitts and Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Ahmed Dailami, Ilnyun Kim, Théophile Deslauriers and others: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Latest issue | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Modern Intellectual History
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A pleasure to have on "Of This World" podcast Greg Grandin/@GregGrandin to discuss his thinking about Pope Leo, and the history of Catholicism in Latin America: www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/worl...
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‘Of This World’—The Church Against Empire
A conversation with historian Greg Grandin about Catholicism in the New World and why the Church under Pope Leo XIV may be the only global force capable of offering a moral challenge to Trumpism.
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Katherine Kelaidis @katiekelaidis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
How Historians Took Over Liberal Punditry newrepublic.com/article/2117... via Me in @newrepublic.com on how liberals fell for their own version of American exceptionalism, amplified by a class of intellectuals-cum-influencers such as Heather Cox Richardson: newrepublic.com/article/2117...
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How Historians Took Over Liberal Punditry
The hottest resistance talking aheads during Trump 2.0 are academics. What happened?
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Lars Cornelissen @lcornelissen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
New publication! Earlier this week, my new paper was published in @mihjournal.bsky.social: 'Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial' It's Open Access! 1/ doi.org/10.1017/S147...
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Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial
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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“Questions of just how much reading and writing students actually do, which had hardly come up during my time in Gainesville, are uncomfortable, but they concern the essence of education.” Ann Manov on civic centers and the future of the liberal arts. harpers.org/archive/2026...
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Republican Machines, by Ann Manov
Can the GOP save the humanities?
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Johannes Lundberg @jlundberg.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026
Pleased to see my article "Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments" published in @mihjournal.bsky.social. In short, it explores the relationship between financial law, Chicago school theory, and continued fossil-fuel investments. 1/
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Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A pleasure to interview Anton Jäger for The Nation about his important new book, “Hyperpolitics”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Do We Live in the Age of “Hyperpolitics”?
A conversation with the historian Anton Jäger about political polarization, the stagnation of the West, the collapse of mass politics in the 20th century.
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Antonio Spadaro @antoniospadaro.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Pope Leo and the ‘Babel Syndrome. ‘Magnifica humanitas’ challenges Silicon Valley’s Promethean pretensions. My take in @commonwealmagazine.org www.commonwealmagazine.org/spadaro-leo-...
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Pope Leo and the ‘Babel Syndrome’
What Leo XIII did for wages and the right of association, Leo XIV does for the human person in the era of the algorithm.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Mardi:
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La démocratie chrétienne face au trumpisme | Le Grand Continent
Mardi du Grand Continent à l'École normale supérieure, avec Rémi Brague, Blandine Chelini-Pont et Jan-Werner Müller.
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Had on the podcast Elise Ann Allen, the Rome correspondent for Crux, about her new book, Pope Leo XIV: The Biography (Penguin Random House). Talked a fair bit about Prevost’s time in Peru: www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/cove...
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Covering Pope Leo
A conversation with journalist Elise Ann Allen
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Dawn of the Electric World Order: Global shockwaves from the war on Iran are accelerating the energy transition “What makes this shock different from the 1970s? As analysts at Ember put it: “this is the first energy shock with a superior alternative.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Was a real pleasure to have my old professor, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri—a leading scholar on the history of Islam in the US—on the podcast to discuss religion and Mamdani, the Muslim community’s response to ICE raids in Minnesota, and the war in Iran.” www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/worl...
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'Of This World'—Minnesota, Mamdani, and Iran
A conversation with historian of Islam Kambiz GhaneaBassiri about the Muslim community's response to ICE raids in Minnesota, the faith-based coalition behind Zohran Mamdani's mayoral victory in New Yo...
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 06/05/2026
In our age of authoritarian certainty, divinity schools have an important role to play in constructing a liberal vision of human flourishing. Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins writes in defense of divinity schools:
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A Treasure Hidden in Plain Sight
In our age of authoritarian certainty, divinity schools have an important role to play in constructing a liberal vision of human flourishing.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
'Magyar’s landslide victory in Hungary has triggered a global outpouring of commentary that sometimes reads like a trashy banner ad: “This one secret technique will make your far-right populism problem disappear!” [But] lessons are more subtle...and some may not be applicable to larger countries.'
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A Hungarian Playbook for Defeating Populists?
Jan-Werner Mueller says that the lessons from Péter Magyar’s recent election victory are more subtle than many have assumed.
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Wrote a small piece inspired by my visit to the University of Chicago’s famous Department of Economics : www.commonwealmagazine.org/divinity-sch...
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A Treasure Hidden in Plain Sight
In our age of authoritarian certainty, divinity schools have an important role to play in constructing a liberal vision of human flourishing.
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is very good. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Are Magazines Failing to Cover the New World Order?
A conversation with Gavin Jacobson, one of the founding editors of Equator, a new publication that is trying to make sense of the world after the West.
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A pleasure to talk with Gavin Jacobson about Equator Magazine, and in particular the motivations behind its recent founding as well as the magazine’s vision: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A pleasure to have Branko Milanovic/@BrankoMilan on the podcast to discuss his important new book: “The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World”: www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/worl...
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'Of This World'—The New Economic Order
A conversation with economist Branko Milanović about the end of the neoliberal era and the future of capitalism
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Vincent Garton has written an excellent review for Modern Intellectual History of two new books on Alexandre Kojève by Marco Filoni, (The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève) and Boris Groys, (Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography). Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Alexandre Kojève as Inevitable Philosopher | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Alexandre Kojève as Inevitable Philosopher
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 07/04/2026
‘As Europe’s leading self-declared “illiberal” statesman, Orbán has built a whole intellectual infrastructure, from glossy magazines to think tanks and international conferences, to spread his philosophy.’ New: @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on Hungary’s upcoming elections www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...
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Jan-Werner Müller | At a Budapest Scruton Café
Tourists might stumble into a Scruton café in quite different parts of Budapest: one is on the second floor of a...
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David Marcus @davidmarcus.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"A hallmark of Lerner’s fiction is the very particular way that politics encroaches, or rather doesn’t, on the life of the protagonist: It is there as a backdrop, a marker of time and place but not much else." Tara Menon in @thenation.com's Spring Books www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Ben Lerner’s Novel of Fathers and Sons
His most experimental and unsettling book, Transcription as us whether art is futile or the most important weapon we have.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
'As the president reassured anyone suspecting that he might fill a glitzy edifice with boring papers and books: “I don’t believe in building libraries or museums.” These are clear signals about wanting to avoid accountability.'
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Two Trump moves last week could kill off future accountability for his deeds | Jan-Werner Müller
The Trump ‘library’ and an attack on the Presidential Records Act have more in common than it might seem
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Checkout MIH’s first issue of 2026: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Latest issue | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Modern Intellectual History
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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A great moment tonight at Wesleyan University as we were joined by Cornel West and Robert P. George for a conversation about the need to bridge differences to find our common humanity in this age of such unrest.
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Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Open Access @universitypress.cambridge.org!
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It was a pleasure to organize this engrossing H-Diplo round table devoted to Grey Anderson’s collection: “Natopolitanism: The Atlantic Alliance since the Cold War.” Participants include Rajan Menon, Jonathan Hunt, Olena Lennon and Peter Rutland: issforum.org/roundtables/...
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Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-31 on Anderson, ed., Natopolitanism
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-31 Grey Anderson, ed., Natopolitanism: The Atlantic Alliance since the Cold War. Verso, 2023. ISBN 9781804292372.
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A pleasure to interview Sophia Rosenfeld for The Nation about her book: “The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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The Hidden History of Free Choice
A conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld, about her recent book, on the roots of the concept of choice.
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
In light of his passing, Le Grand Continent has published en français the full version of my recent interview with Jürgen Habermas: legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...
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Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026) : le dernier philosophe de la modernité
Le philosophe allemand le plus traduit au monde vient de s'éteindre à Starnberg, en Bavière. Nous publions aujourd'hui la version inédite de l'un de ses derniers grands entretiens — une défense sans ...
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
RIP to Jürgen Habermas. I had the privilege of interviewing him around this time last year for The Nation: thenation.com/article/cult...
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
An epic book
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Here is the new episode of the podcast I cohost with Nick Tabor called, "Of This World." Our guest is the intellectual historian Jonathan Sheehan. We discuss his important new book "On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular": www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/worl...
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'Of This World'—On the Altar
Hosts and 'Commonweal' contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor chat with professor and author Jonathan Sheehan, professor of European History at UC Berkeley about the history of sacrifice...
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Here is the new episode of the podcast I cohost with the Nick Tabor called, "Of This World." Our guest is the intellectual historian Jonathan Sheehan. We discuss his important new book "On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular": www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/worl...
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'Of This World'—On the Altar
Hosts and 'Commonweal' contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor chat with professor and author Jonathan Sheehan, professor of European History at UC Berkeley about the history of sacrifice...
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Ulrich Plass with an excellent MIH review essay re new books on Marxism: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A pleasure to have the reporter Daniel Silliman on the podcast to discuss his tenure at Christianity Today, the current state of Evangelicalism and more: www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/worl...
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'Of This World'—Revelation and Reporting
In the third episode of our special podcast series, ‘Commonweal’ contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor speak with investigative reporter Daniel Silliman.
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
“Vincent Descombes looks back, after another 45 years, on his history of French philosophy from 1933 to 1978, published in English as Modern French Philosophy (1980) and in French as Le Même et l’Autre (1979).”: philosophersmag.com/45-years-of-...
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45 Years of French Philosophy - The Philosophers' Magazine
Vincent Descombes looks back on his history of French philosophy from 1933 to 1978.
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
My first interview for The Nation this year is with Kwame Anthony Appiah and concerns his new book on the religious origins of sociology titled: “Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of Social Science”: thenation.com/article/cult...
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How Was Sociology Invented?
A conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah about the religious origins of social theory and his recent book Captive Gods.
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