Thomas Meaney, a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University, is co-editor of The Utopian.
Algerian Chronicles shows that Camus still has something to say to us—not about terrorism but economic justice.
No good deed goes unpunished; smashing the glass ceiling; the dollar rules the world
Why a passionate history of global alternatives to liberal capitalism becomes an exercise in nostalgia.
In The Passage of Power, Robert Caro shows that LBJ’s brilliance as a politician lay not in his idealism but his opportunism.
How Charles de Gaulle’s story became a collective fairy tale that the French have agreed to believe in.
Why are Yale and other top universities teaching a Grand Strategy seminar if the conditions that seemed to call for grand strategizing no longer exist?
Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms.
The Origins of Political Order, a work of total world history, pits the old Fukuyama against the new.
With a sharp eye for cultural patterns and a keen feel for the shape of a story, Claude Lévi-Strauss was a poet in the laboratory of anthropology.
