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Booked: The Joshuas Cohen

Timothy Shenk ▪ September 17, 2015

An interview with Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen.

Booked: On Their Way to Freedom

Timothy Shenk ▪ July 16, 2015

An interview with Eric Foner on the underground railroad in New York, how history helps us to understand change, and why the left should talk more about freedom.

Booked: The Meaning of the Fourth of July

Timothy Shenk ▪ July 2, 2015

Americans revere the Declaration of Independence, but most of us don’t read it. Timothy Shenk spoke with Danielle Allen about the document’s relevance for how we understand liberty and equality in the United States today.

Booked: How the League of Nations Shaped International Politics

Timothy Shenk ▪ June 4, 2015

Tim Shenk talks to historian Susan Pedersen about The Guardians, and how the bureaucrats of the League of Nations helped to destroy the imperial order they had set out to protect.

Booked #4: What Did Race Mean to W.E.B. Du Bois?

Timothy Shenk ▪ May 7, 2015

Tim Shenk talked with Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity, about how Du Bois’s experiences as a black American shaped his theories of race, and how his theories relate to politics then and now.

Booked #3: What Exactly Is Neoliberalism?

Timothy Shenk ▪ April 2, 2015

Tim Shenk spoke with political scientist Wendy Brown about her new book, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, and the political consequences of viewing the world as an enormous marketplace.

Booked #2: Wonder Woman and the History of Feminism

Timothy Shenk ▪ March 3, 2015

Tim Shenk talks with historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore about Wonder Woman and the lost history of feminism.

Booked #1: What’s Wrong With Community Development?

Timothy Shenk ▪ January 29, 2015

To kick off our new Q&A series, Booked, Tim Shenk talks to historian Daniel Immerwahr about “a left that can operate on all scales.”

The Long Shadow of Mont Pèlerin

Timothy Shenk ▪ Fall 2013

Once there was a golden age of democratic capitalism. Chastened by the Great Depression and cowed by vigorous labor movements, a generation of leaders forged a new type of political economy in the aftermath of the Second World War that united economic growth with robust welfare regimes. Then in the 1970s something went wrong. At least, that is how the story goes.

Eric Hobsbawm and the Limits of Marxism

Timothy Shenk ▪ October 2, 2012

While Hobsbawm will be remembered as a historian of singular gifts, his writings already seem less a harbinger of the shape of things to come than sterling examples of an older kind of scholarship at its best.