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Published! "[My work has been] in dialogue with two powerful minds, Quentin Skinner and István Hont... Over those six decades, I have made two discoveries that I still think really matter". Read the autobiographical reflections of John Dunn here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Project MUSE - History of Social Science-Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 2026

See the new issue of History of Social Science, just published! Half the articles are free, including @brad.bolman.com’s account of Bruno Latour’s blocked appointment at the Institute for Advanced Study and Chas Camic’s short bio of Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class muse.jhu.edu/issue/56614

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Project MUSE -- Verification required!

We were able to make the article free for the next month! muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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In the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/985884

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Small supplementary note: I'm really thankful to @histsocialscience.bsky.social for letting this article run long (hopefully not too long), an opportunity that is really vanishing in modern scholarly publishing

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The second issue of our journal @histsocialscience.bsky.social is here! Read now via Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55727

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The second issue of History of Social Science (the new journal from @pennpress.bsky.social) is live, with half the articles in temporary free access muse.jhu.edu/issue/

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Project MUSE - Closing the Domestic Intelligence Gap: Walter Mondale’s Proposal for a National Council of Social Advisers and the Uneasy Partnership between Social Science and the Federal Government

Back in the late 1960s, Mondale proposed creating a national Council of Social Advisers, which would draw on social science to support a liberal reform agenda. This initiative's failure symbolized the collapsing faith in the possibility of well-informed progressive state muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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Project MUSE - History of Social Science-Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 2025

The first issue of History of Social Science (brand new journal with @pennpress.bsky.social) is published in free access. Please share widely! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54109

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The first issue of History of Social Science is available now
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Project MUSE - Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (review)

My review of the excellent Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by @bernarddionysius.bsky.social is out now in the new and very exciting @histsocialscience.bsky.social! Available open access here~~

muse.jhu.edu/article/952248

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🚨 SOUNDING THE NEW JOURNAL KLAXON 🚨

Looks great!

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Project MUSE - History of Social Science-Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 2025

The first issue of History of Social Science (brand new journal with @pennpress.bsky.social) is published in free access. Please share widely! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54109

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