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Fazıl Ahmed Pasha and the Politics of Knowledge: In Conversation with M. Fatih Çalışır

by Nilab Saeedi In this interview, Nilab Saeedi speaks with M. Fatih Çalışır about the intellectual life of the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire, where knowledge was not only preserved or encouraged but deliberately used to shape governance. Their interview centers on… Continue Reading →

Everything Has a Price: The Commercial Gaze and the Origins of Corporate Empire

by Brandon Taylor

Marx’s Reception in the United States: An Interview with Andrew Hartman

by Alec Israeli In Karl Marx in America (University of Chicago Press, 2025), Andrew Hartman offers a history of Karl Marx’s role as “ghost in the machine” of American life and thought. Beginning with the significance of Marx’s observations of… Continue Reading →

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg

by Disha Karnad Jani

Announcing the Martin Jay Article Prize for Graduate Students

This new award recognizes the best graduate student-authored article accepted for publication in the Journal of the History of Ideas each year.

The Architects of Dignity: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Kevin Pham

by Disha Karnad Jani

“Language and Image Minus Cognition”: An Interview with Leif Weatherby

by Robin Manley

Knowledge and Colonialism in the Atlantic Republic of Letters: An Interview with Diego Pirillo

by Matias X. Gonzalez

What Is Post-Fascism?

by Sven Reichardt

Translation in Different Keys: An Interview with Kasia Szymanska

by Rose Facchini

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