Intellectual historian Michael Behrent discusses the role of Catholicism in Foucault’s youth and the connection between his religious background and later work.

Foucault; Aron; intellectual history; archives; centennial,

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Liberalism; Intellectual History; New Historiography Cold War Liberalism; Neoliberalism; Populism

The Caesarist City - Volume 23 Issue 3

The Catholic Church is now the default option for those seeking a Christianity capable of guiding a different kind of politics.

Raymond Aron; Liberalism; Biography; Intellectual History; World Order

Secularism; Political Theology; Crisis of Democracy; Populism; Socialism

Ferry Retrouvé: Leaving the History of Empire Out of the “Liberal Moment” in France

First World War, Intellectual history, politics, economics, modernism, empire, Anthropocene, revolution, democracy, Keynes, W.E.B. Du Bois

Presentism, Historical Comparisons, Fascism Debate, AI, Neoliberalism

An interview with historian Ned Blackhawk on the United States’ contested founding.

An interview with historian Ned Blackhawk on the United States’ contested founding.

History, Economics, Politics, Religion, and Philosophy Books for Fall 2026

A Resource for New and Forthcoming Books, New Articles, Interviews, Podcast, Archival finds and more...

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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.

The hottest resistance talking aheads during Trump 2.0 are academics. What happened?

Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial

Can the GOP save the humanities?

Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments

A conversation with the historian Anton Jäger about political polarization, the stagnation of the West, the collapse of mass politics in the 20th century.

What Leo XIII did for wages and the right of association, Leo XIV does for the human person in the era of the algorithm.

Mardi du Grand Continent à l'École normale supérieure, avec Rémi Brague, Blandine Chelini-Pont et Jan-Werner Müller.

A conversation with journalist Elise Ann Allen

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...

In our age of authoritarian certainty, divinity schools have an important role to play in constructing a liberal vision of human flourishing.

Jan-Werner Mueller says that the lessons from Péter Magyar’s recent election victory are more subtle than many have assumed.

In our age of authoritarian certainty, divinity schools have an important role to play in constructing a liberal vision of human flourishing.

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.

A conversation with economist Branko Milanović about the end of the neoliberal era and the future of capitalism

Alexandre Kojève as Inevitable Philosopher

Tourists might stumble into a Scruton café in quite different parts of Budapest: one is on the second floor of a...

His most experimental and unsettling book, Transcription as us whether art is futile or the most important weapon we have.

The Trump ‘library’ and an attack on the Presidential Records Act have more in common than it might seem

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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.

A conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld, about her recent book, on the roots of the concept of choice.

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 ...

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...

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...