Now on FirstView: Marx without Teleology? Ulrich Plass examines recent scholarship on Marx and Marxism in his review essay of Michael Heinrich’s Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society, Tracie Matysik’s When Spinoza Met Marx, and Kohei Saito’s Marx in the Anthropocene

Now on FirstView: Marx without Teleology? Ulrich Plass examines recent scholarship on Marx and Marxism in his review essay of Michael Heinrich’s Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society, Tracie Matysik’s When Spinoza Met Marx, and Kohei Saito’s Marx in the Anthropocene

New publication! Earlier this week, my new paper was published in @mihjournal.bsky.social: 'Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial' It's Open Access! 1/ doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Now on FirstView: Jane Lydon @janelydon.bsky.social reexamines the relationship between Jeremy Bentham and Edward Gibbon Wakefield through the lens of one of Bentham’s last projects: “Colonization Company Proposal” (1831)

Now on FirstView: Governing the Miracle? Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social discusses the consequences of planetary perspective for political thought in her review essay of Blake and Gilman’s Children of a Modest Star and Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature

Now on FirstView: What happened to New England theology? Sam Gee analyzes the contemporary decline of scholarship on New England Theology and proposes a way forward for its study by going beyond evangelical readings of the sources

Now on FirstView: Civil society divided against itself? Pamela C. Nogales analyzes labor reformers' fights for shorter hours in antebellum U.S. and the transatlantic debates over a global "social republic"

Now on FirstView: The body’s American moment? Peter Cajka analyzes why “the body” became wildly popular in the social sciences and humanities in the US in the late twentieth century

Now on FirstView: Against the Caesarist crowd? Peter Giraudo analyzes Georges Sorel's early democratic socialism during the Dreyfus affair and his ideas on workers' dissociation from Parisian crowds as a necessary condition for socialist progress

Now on FirstView: Camilla Boisen reflects on the stories we tell ourselves about peace and genocide in her review essay of A. Dirk Moses' @dirkmoses.bsky.social The Problems of Genocide and Lauren Benton's They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence

Now on FirstView: Abolition on the eve of revolution? Jennifer Pitts and Michael F. Suarez, S.J., examine Condorcet’s French translation of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s influential antislavery treatise and analyze its reception in France

Now on FirstView: The body’s American moment? Peter Cajka analyzes why “the body” became wildly popular in the social sciences and humanities in the US in the late twentieth century

Now on FirstView: The course that Vico ran? John Robertson analyzes the significance of the completed critical edition of Vico’s Scienza Nuova

Now on FirstView: “Officers without Soldiers”?: Théophile Deslauriers analyzes Henry Sidgwick’s theory of representative government in the shadow of Liberal Unionism in Britain

Pleased to see my article "Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments" published in @mihjournal.bsky.social. In short, it explores the relationship between financial law, Chicago school theory, and continued fossil-fuel investments. 1/

Now on FirstView: The course that Vico ran? John Robertson analyzes the significance of the completed critical edition of Vico’s Scienza Nuova

Now on FirstView: “Officers without Soldiers”?: Théophile Deslauriers analyzes Henry Sidgwick’s theory of representative government in the shadow of Liberal Unionism in Britain

📣 Announcing The 2026 Modern Intellectual History Lecture! We're thrilled to welcome Prof. Marlene L. Daut (Yale) for her talk: “The King of Haiti and Black Statecraft in the Nineteenth Century.” 📅 March 19, 2026 ⏰ 2:15–3:45 PM CST 📍 Black Cultural Center Auditorium, Vanderbilt University

📣 Announcing The 2026 Modern Intellectual History Lecture! We're thrilled to welcome Prof. Marlene L. Daut (Yale) for her talk: “The King of Haiti and Black Statecraft in the Nineteenth Century.” 📅 March 19, 2026 ⏰ 2:15–3:45 PM CST 📍 Black Cultural Center Auditorium, Vanderbilt University

Now on FirstView: Abolition on the eve of revolution? Jennifer Pitts and Michael F. Suarez, S.J., examine Condorcet’s French translation of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s influential antislavery treatise and analyze its reception in France

Now on FirstView: Camilla Boisen reflects on the stories we tell ourselves about peace and genocide in her review essay of A. Dirk Moses' @dirkmoses.bsky.social The Problems of Genocide and Lauren Benton's They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence

Now on FirstView: Against the Caesarist crowd? Peter Giraudo analyzes Georges Sorel's early democratic socialism during the Dreyfus affair and his ideas on workers' dissociation from Parisian crowds as a necessary condition for socialist progress

Now on FirstView: Civil society divided against itself? Pamela C. Nogales analyzes labor reformers' fights for shorter hours in antebellum U.S. and the transatlantic debates over a global "social republic"

Now on FirstView: What happened to New England theology? Sam Gee analyzes the contemporary decline of scholarship on New England Theology and proposes a way forward for its study by going beyond evangelical readings of the sources

Now on FirstView: Bringing intellectual history into dry dock? Nayeli L. Riano reflects on methods and intellectual history in her review essay of Javier Fernández-Sebastián’s Key Metaphors for History and Elías Palti’s Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change bit.ly/4q1wSas

Now on FirstView: Jane Lydon @janelydon.bsky.social reexamines the relationship between Jeremy Bentham and Edward Gibbon Wakefield through the lens of one of Bentham’s last projects: “Colonization Company Proposal” (1831)

Now on FirstView: The bear in the room and the civilizing process? Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social discusses the historical narratives of “the West” and “Europe” in his review essay of Georgios Varouxakis’s The West: The History of an Idea and Anthony Pagden’s The Pursuit of Europe: A History

Now on FirstView: Timothy Scott Johnson interrogates the relationship between empire, decolonization, and sociology in France in his review essay of George Steinmetz’s The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought and Amín Pérez’s Bourdieu and Sayad against Empire

Now on FirstView: Conservative Arab thought after Islam? Ahmed Dailami reconstructs the intellectual history of the Arab right through the work of philosopher Mohammed Jaber al-Ansari in the late 20th century

Now on FirstView: The “Woman’s Seed”? Ariane Viktoria Fichtl @threadofariane.bsky.social analyzes the abolitionist cognitive tool “mental metempsychosis” that challenged the concept of the heritability of slavery and was at the heart of immediate abolitionism in Britain