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Nev March: History and Mystery

08/03/2023
Nev March and Iona Italia

In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to novelist Nev March about her latest book, Peril at the Exposition, an intricately plotted and lushly descriptive historical…

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Vintage human anatomy sketch of a anomalous body

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3 min

Unusual Bodies: A Conversation with Alice Dreger

05/01/2023
Alice Dreger and Iona Italia

In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to researcher, journalist, historian of science and novelist Alice Dreger—one of the most fascinating polymaths among the current…

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7 min

Politics

The Continued Danger of Nuclear War

In her 2017 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Beatrice Fihn acknowledged the insane situation we find ourselves in due to the widespread militaristic harnessing of the atom: The risk for…

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8 min

Culture & Media

Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Tensions of Travel

A great writer’s legacy demands constant renewal. Books left on a shelf, whether they are Tolstoyan or trash, gather dust. They look dog-eared, old-fashioned and uninviting. A critic’s task, sometimes,…

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6 min

A Life of Cultural Appropriation: “The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi”

Fukuzawa Yukichi was born in 1835. When he was a young man, Japan was still a feudal society: static, rigid and almost completely isolated from the outside world, wanting nothing…

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5 min

Joseph Henrich’s “The WEIRDEST People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous”

Writing from Islamic Spain in 1068, scholar Said ibn Ahmad describes the different nations of the world. Some, like the Greeks, Romans, Persians, Egyptians, Indians and Jews, he writes, have…

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10 min

Politics

They Shall Grow Not Old

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. But at the going down of the sun and…

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6 min

Politics

Black History Month: An Educator’s Dilemma

Black History Month in the UK is often accused of being a clichéd exercise. While teachers on this side of the Atlantic are increasingly moving away from topics like US…

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5 min

Culture & Media

“A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn

Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States considers the history of the US from the perspective of the underdog: the lower classes, workers, women, immigrants, African slaves and their…

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6 min

Politics

Making Sense of 2020

We are currently experiencing the worst pandemic in a century and the most violent protests in fifty years, and potentially face the worst economic downturn in decades. What’s more, all…

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6 min

Politics

“Shoah” and the Importance of the Palimpsest

Starting with the removal of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, a new focus on cleaning up our past has emerged in response to the death of George Floyd,…

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7 min

Politics

Those Who Want to Abolish the Police Are Playing with Fire

Image by Ryan Kosmides Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police.—The New York Times My hometown has made global headlines recently, after the publication of the video of what can—at…

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7 min

Beware A World of Marble Trumps: On Campaigns to Remove Statues

Iconoclasm is back. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, progressive activists have pivoted from a narrative that most could unite around—police brutality is wrong and, in the…

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7 min

Culture & Media

Is History Cliometrics or the Story of Great Men?

History is biography. Pick up any book about the past and you will find names of individuals. Some names are accompanied by a lot of narrative detail, others by not…

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History

Nev March: History and Mystery

Unusual Bodies: A Conversation with Alice Dreger

The Continued Danger of Nuclear War

Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Tensions of Travel

A Life of Cultural Appropriation: “The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi”

Joseph Henrich’s “The WEIRDEST People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous”

They Shall Grow Not Old

Black History Month: An Educator’s Dilemma

“A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn

Making Sense of 2020

“Shoah” and the Importance of the Palimpsest

Those Who Want to Abolish the Police Are Playing with Fire

Beware A World of Marble Trumps: On Campaigns to Remove Statues

Is History Cliometrics or the Story of Great Men?

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