The Blog October 29, 2018

What We're Reading This Week

Patient, Surrey County Lunatic Asylum (1850-58). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

COLLIN BERNARD

Quinn Slobodian, "Trump, Populists and the Rise of Right-Wing Globalization," The New York Times.

Seyla Benhabib, "Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach," Boston Review.

Nadezhda Azhgikhina, "Russia's Unlearned Lessons From the Failed Revolt of 1993," The Nation.

Achin Vanaik, "India's Two Hegemonies," New Left Review.

MATTHEW BOWSER

Faisal Devji, "Jamal Khashoggi and the Competing Visions of Islam," The New York Times.

"'Iconic' Image of Palestinian Protestor in Gaza Goes Viral," Al Jazeera.

Tess Riley, "Just 100 Companies Responsible for 71% of Global Emissions, Study Says," The Guardian.

"Episode 26: Cold War Legacies Roundtable," Breaking History Podcast.

MARTIN CREVIER

Andrew Harry, "A Dead Sea Scrolls Forgery Casts Doubt on the Museum of the Bible Controversy," The Atlantic.

Paige Raibmon, "Provincializing Europe in Canadian History; Or, How to Talk about Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Europeans," Active History.

MEGHNA CHAUDHURI

Theodore Porter, "Madhouse Genetics," Aeon.

Anne Schult, "Sovereignty, Property, and the Locus of Power," JHI Blog.

Kate Wagner, "The Palace and the Storm," The Baffler.

Kwame Anthony Appiah, "The Myth of Meritocracy: Who Really Gets What They Deserve?," The Guardian.

DEXTER GOVAN

Soutik Biswas, "Delhi Smog: Foul Air Came from India's Farming Revolution," BBC.

Stephen Daker, "The Spectre of Militant," New Socialist.

Matthew Engel, "A View From the Border: Ireland on the Brink of Brexit," New Statesman.

Aditya Chakrabortty, "Britain Fell for a Neoliberal Con Trick - Even the IMF Says So," The Guardian.

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