intellectual history

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  Accessed 2/12/19
  

  Eugene V. Debs and the Endurance of Socialism

  by Jill Lepore

  Half man, half myth, Debs turned a radical creed into a deeply American one.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  1/14/19
  

  Barr memo suggests: To understand the Trump administration, read Hobbes

  by Eric Terzuolo

  To the extent that there is a Trump administration philosophy of the state, the Kavanaugh article and Barr memo are foundational documents.

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• 10-17-15
  

  Intellectual history conference in DC debates what it means to be an intellectual

  by HNN Editor

  Speakers include: Corey Robin (CUNY), Leo Ribuffo (GW), Claire Potter (New School), David Ferriero (Archivist of the United States), and Russell Jacoby (Author of The Last Intellectuals).

• SOURCE: S-USIH Blog
  5-28-13
  

  Ben Alpers: A Memorial Day Thought on David M. Kennedy

  Benjamin Alpers received his PhD in history from Princeton University in 1994. He joined the faculty of the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma in 1998.In today’s New York Times, retired Army Lieutenant General and former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry and the historian David Kennedy published an op-ed entitled “Americans and Their Military, Drifting Apart.” Eikenberry and Kennedy identify a very real problem: the increasing social distance between our increasingly high-tech, all-volunteer military and the rest of American society.   Today’s military, they argue, presents “a disurbingly novel spectacle”: