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On the blog, Jack Crosswaite argues that John Rawls’s influential theory of political liberalism relies on a secularized Whig history of the seventeenth-century Puritan liberty of conscience. As a result, Rawls cannot ground citizens’ commitment to his liberalism.
In an essay for the blog, Chris O'Kane presents the latest edition of Marx’s Capital as yet another attempt by translators to crystallize a particular political interpretation of Marx—this time, the novel synthesis misapprehended as a straightforward “Marx revival.”
For the In Theory podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Samuel Rutherford about his book “Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939,” which explores how English and Scottish universities constructed gender and sexuality in early 20th-century Britain.
The new issue of the JHI includes a cluster of articles: "Race: Histories of an Idea." Ian Stewart's contribution, "Pan-Celticism and Racial Thought at the Fin de Siècle" is available to read here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
The latest issue of the journal includes an article by Matti Leprêtre: "Paracelsus’s Doctrine of Signatures Reconsidered." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
There are twelve days left to submit a proposal to the JHI’s fall graduate symposium. You can find the call and recommended reading here: www.jhiblog.org/2026/05/07/j...
The new issue of the JHI includes a cluster of articles on "Race: Histories of Idea." Shruti Balaji's contribution is "'The African Problem Is a World Problem': (Dis)locating Race in Late Colonial Indian Intellectual Thought." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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In this JHI Blog interview, Leslie James discusses her latest book, “The Moving Word,” and how it reframes the relationship between newspapers and decolonization in Anglophone West Africa and the Caribbean. @harvardpress.bsky.social
The new issue of the journal features a cluster of articles on “Race: Histories of an Idea.”
Read Meleisa Ono-George’s contribution, "'In me you see the Almighty’s wondrous Power': Amelia Newsham, Race, and Black Women’s Intellectual History in Georgian Britain": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Paola Zichi's article "Race, Redemption, and Reform: The Interplay of Eugenics, Antisemitism, and Feminist Anti Trafficking Efforts in Early Twentieth-Century Italy" is the final piece in the JHI's cluster of articles on "Race: Histories of an Idea." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
