Another Archive of Feelings
Reflections on Before Trans
Tag: Intellectual and Cultural History
Remembering (and forgetting) Old Poetry
Why Thomas Wyatt’s They Flee From Me still means Something, and How. PETER MURPHY Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt by Hans Holbein the Younger c. 1535-37. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Picture a bright modern classroom, somewhere, in which students sit, perhaps in a semicircle …
Global Media in the Holy Land
From satellite TV to contraband texts, media has played a critical role for Palestinians in Israel.
Common Sense Science
The search for the cause of yellow fever reveals a lot about the early American republic.
Trump and the Paternal Heart
On the president-elect and the paternalistic logic of American conservatism.
Reason in the Holy Writ
How the Qur’an heralded a quest for knowledge and rational inquiry in Arabia.
The Singing Turk at Center Stage
How Europeans once saw themselves through Turkish eyes at the opera.
