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...

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...

‘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...

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.

"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...

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

'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.'

Checkout MIH’s first issue of 2026: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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.

Open Access @universitypress.cambridge.org!

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.

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/...

The Hidden History of Free Choice A conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld, about her recent book, on the roots of the concept of choice.

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...

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 ...

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...

RIP to Jürgen Habermas. I had the privilege of interviewing him around this time last year for The Nation: thenation.com/article/cult...

An epic book

'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...

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...

'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...

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...

Ulrich Plass with an excellent MIH review essay re new books on Marxism: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

'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.

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...

45 Years of French Philosophy - The Philosophers' Magazine Vincent Descombes looks back on his history of French philosophy from 1933 to 1978.

“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-...

How Was Sociology Invented? A conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah about the religious origins of social theory and his recent book Captive Gods.

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...

How Was Sociology Invented? A conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah about the religious origins of social theory and his recent book Captive Gods.

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...

Jewish Anti-Zionism A collection of texts illustrating the complex reasons why Jews have contested or rejected the Zionist ideal over more than a century

A forthcoming edited collection from Princeton University Press: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Public Scholars Fellowship | The Moynihan Center Cultivating bold ideas. Forging the next generation of public-service leaders.

Call for Applications for the Moynihan Public Scholars Fellowship based out of City College in NYC. Highly recommend applying: moynihancenter.ccny.cuny.edu/programs/pub...

Jonathan Rée · We are all layabouts now: Kojève v. Hegel Alexandre Kojève described his book on Hegel as ‘very bad’, and he had a point. His take on the Phenomenology of...

Excellent LRB review of two new books on the life and thought of Alexandre Kojève : “Kojève ‘adored’ international negotiations, but did not take them too seriously: for him they were essentially a ‘superior game’, which he played ‘like the devil in holy water’.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A Return to Liberal Democracy About: Justine Lacroix, Les valeurs de l'Europe. Un enjeu démocratique, Collège de France éditions

On Justine Lacroix: "Popular sovereignty and the rule of law are inseparable: the idea that there could be “illiberal democracies” is groundless and plays into the hands of populists.": booksandideas.net/A-Return-to-...

The intellectual historian Camilla Boisen has written an extensive review article of my and Lauren Benton‘s books on war and genocide, bringing different fields into conversation. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

American Charisms In the second episode of 'Of This World,' a special podcast series co-hosted by 'Commonweal,' contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor speak with Molly Worthen, author of 'Spellbound.'

The latest episode of the podcast I cohost with Nick Tabor is now available. We interviewed Molly Worthen, a leading historian of American religion, about her new book: Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump": www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/amer...

Cold War liberalism: an attempt to reconcile the liberal project with the traumas of the 20th century. Par Nathan GuezDaniel Jenkins is a professor at Westlane University specializing in intellectual history. Influenced by Samuel Moyn, his work focuses on the concept of Cold War liberalism—an intellect...

Thanks to Nathan Guez—a very sharp student at Sciences Po—for interviewing me: paulloussot4.wixsite.com/le-monde-d/p...
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The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state | Jan-Werner Müller The Venezuela incursion is in line with this logic, made even plainer as the US eyes Greenland

The Donroe Doctrine: Extortion, Extraction, Exploitation (and Extradition, if needed).

Thrilled to have Alden Young join Modern Intellectual History as an editor: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What Justice on a Burning Planet? Andreas Malm and Thea Riofrancos joined The Nation’s Wen Stephenson in an urgent conversation about the left and the climate emergency.

Wen Stephenson, Thea Riofrancos, and Andreas Malm discuss the "deadly silence and denial" creating a veil around the climate crisis.
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