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Brief Publishing Hiatus

By THE EDITORS

June 21, 2020
Parliamentarism Recidivus

By NOAH A. ROSENBLUM

Review of Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber, by William Selinger, and Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain, by Gregory Conti

April 16, 2020
Is Historical Knowledge Philosophically Interesting?

By MAKSYMILIAN DEL MAR

Review of The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, by Paul Roth

April 02, 2020
The Future of Political Islam?

By RACHEL M. SCOTT

Review of The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, by Andrew F. March

March 18, 2020
The “New Asylums”—and the Old

By ANN HEFFERNAN and KAREN TANI

Review of From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945, by Anne E. Parsons

March 12, 2020
What is the Rule of Law Good For?

By ANDREW KOPPELMAN

Review of The Rule of Law in the Real World, by Paul Gowder

March 05, 2020
The Long Dialogue between Worldmaking and Empire

By STEVE PINCUS

Review of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, byAdom Getachew

February 26, 2020
National Security: The Sublime and the Bureaucratic

By MARK FENSTER

Review of The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy, by Matthew Potolsky and Paranoid Visions: Spies, Conspiracies and the Secret State in British Television Drama, byJoseph Oldham

February 19, 2020
The Book of the Dead

By JOHN MCCALLUM

Review of The Cold War’s Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace, by Paul Thomas Chamberlin

February 12, 2020
The Varieties of Religious Expedience

By ROBERT MARK SIMPSON

Review of Interior States: Essays, by Meghan O'Gieblyn

February 05, 2020
Common Sense Capitalism

By GLORY M. LIU

Review of Free Enterprise: An American History, by Lawrence Glickman

January 29, 2020
The Unsettling Voice of Clarence Thomas

By CONNOR M. EWING

Review of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, by Corey Robin

January 22, 2020
Political Philosophy and the Search for the Possible

By BRIAN KOGELMANN

Review of In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy, by Katrina Forrester

January 15, 2020
Breaking Capitalism’s Spell

By GERALD J. RUSSELLO

Review of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, by Eugene McCarraher

January 08, 2020
Elizabeth Strout’s Compassionate Realism

By CHARLIE TYSON

Review of Olive, Again, by Elizabeth Strout

December 18, 2019
Involving Orcs

By ANDREW KOPPELMAN

Review of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed, by Lisa Duggan

December 12, 2019
People Power

By BENJAMIN SIEGEL

Review of Opium's Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control, by Steffen Rimner.

December 04, 2019
How to Influence People

By STEVEN LUBET

Review of Writing to Persuade, by Trish Hall.

November 27, 2019
Forget it Jake, It's 2019

By ZACHARY HERZ

Review of Your House Will Pay, by Steph Cha.

November 20, 2019
Heartland Empire

By MICHAEL FRANCZAK

Review of The Heartland: An American History, by Kristin L. Hoganson.

November 14, 2019

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