Recent Posts:

2019:

“More Than Just Packaging?: The Humanities and Interdisciplinarity in the Modern University,” March 14, 2019.

2018:

“On the Pleasures of Slow Reading,” December 12, 2018.

“The Bridge from Academe,” August 12, 2018.

2016:

“Structural Diversity in the University Ecosystem,” Review of Harvey J. Graff’s Undisciplining Knowledge, Society for U.S. Intellectual History, February 14, 2016.

2015:

“The Revolution That Wasn’t”, Review of Fred Turner’s The Democratic Surround, Society for U.S. Intellectual History blog, March 8, 2015.

“Making History Too Big To Fail?: The History Manifesto and the Return of History as Science”, March 3, 2015.

“Academic Inequality: A Problem of Ideas and Institutions“, February 24, 2015.

2014:

Tackling the #Historiannchallenge, October 18, 2014.

“The Past Is Not A Cold Dead Place: Perry Anderson, Genealogy, History“, Roundtable on U.S. Foreign Policy and the Left, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, July 18, 2014.

“Not My Liberalism”, Roundtable on Edmund Fawcett’s Liberalism: The Life of an Idea (2014), Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, July 5, 2014.

Towards A Hi-Tech University?: Recapping THATCamp New England 2014, June 3, 2014.

“The ‘Lost Promise’ of Colored Solidarity?”, review of Nico Slate’s Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India (2012), Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, March 7, 2014.

2013:

“Loyalty, Treachery, and Economic Nationalism”; review of Benn Steil’s The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (2013), Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, August 11, 2013.

“The Trouble(s) with Dissertations,” August 4, 2013.

“The Wars on Ahimsa: The Culture Wars, the Cold War, and Gandhism in the 1980s”, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, July 16, 2013.

“The Arc-Hive Mind?,” March 29, 2013.