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Originally published 06/26/2017
Harvard's Moshik Temkin pens op ed in the NYT warning historians not to use analogies
Moshik Temkin
Historians have a role as pundits, he argues, but they have to resist the impulse to oversimplify the news.
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Originally published 04/28/2014
The Paradox of Public Intellectuals
Eric Hobsbawm
This age of the intellectual as the chief public face of political opposition has retreated into the past.
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Originally published 04/03/2014
The Walter Benjamin Brigade
Walter Laqueur
How an obscure and maddeningly opaque German Jewish intellectual became a thriving academic industry.
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