Social history

Flesh and Blood

by David Graeber, David Wengrow,

From The Dawn of Everything, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In the mid-twentieth century, a British anthropologist named A. M. Hocart proposed that monarchs…

The marriage of hip and square

by Thomas Frank,

History outside of history

by Greil Marcus,

Denigrating the rule of reason

by Gertrude Himmelfarb,

The road less traveled

by Erazim V. Kohák,

A bummer

by Lewis H. Lapham,

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Flesh and Blood

The marriage of hip and square

History outside of history

Denigrating the rule of reason

The road less traveled

A bummer

Editor’s easy chair

July 1853

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