Now on FirstView: From markets to planning in promethean discourse? Niklas Olsen and Rasmus Skov Andersen situate the work of famous “skeptical environmentalist” Bjørn Lomborg in current climate and environmental debates bit.ly/486IPqq

From Postcolonial to Muslim Worlds? Xiaoyue Yasin Li examines the egalitarian ideas and practices of Gamal al-Banna (1920–2013) during Egypt’s transition from postcolonial socialism to neoliberal Islamic revival

Now on FirstView: From markets to planning in promethean discourse? Niklas Olsen and Rasmus Skov Andersen situate the work of famous “skeptical environmentalist” Bjørn Lomborg in current climate and environmental debates bit.ly/486IPqq

New MIH Issue: Thinking metaphorically? Jason Ferrell analyzes metaphor as method in the writings of Isaiah Berlin’s to demonstrate the moral agency associated with value pluralism

From Postcolonial to Muslim Worlds? Xiaoyue Yasin Li examines the egalitarian ideas and practices of Gamal al-Banna (1920–2013) during Egypt’s transition from postcolonial socialism to neoliberal Islamic revival

Now on FirstView: Vicarious Sovereignty? Taimur Reza analyzes the place of extraterritorial Turkey in the vision of Bengali Muslims at the turn of the twentieth century (1890–1917)

New MIH Issue: Reading the history of money? Carl Wennerlind analyzes the political and ideological theorization of money in his review essay of Stefan Eich’s The Currency of Politics and George Caffentzis’ Civilizing Money

From MIH Archives: Of savagery and civil society? Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social ‪examines the thought of French anthropologist Pierre Clastres and situates his once-famous depiction of savage politics as a premonitory rejection of the state at the crossroads of several traditions

Now on FirstView: Does economic nationalism have a philosophy? Stefan Link engages with this question in his review essay of Suesse Marvin’s The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism and Helleiner Eric’s The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History

Now on FirstView: Direct action as radical politics? Sean Scalmer analyzes the transnational histories of direct action and of nonviolence drawing attention to previously submerged debates of the radical interwar left

New MIH Issue: David Chan Smith @dasmith.bsky.social th.bsky.social‬ reconstructs the intellectual history of Milton Friedman's criticism of corporate social responsibility

Now on FirstView: Does economic nationalism have a philosophy? Stefan Link engages with this question in his review essay of Suesse Marvin’s The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism and Helleiner Eric’s The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History

From MIH Archives: Confucian capitalism? Jennifer M. Miller explores the influence of East Asia's economic growth on the evolution of American neoconservative thought and its celebration of traditional values in the 1970s and 1980s

Now on FirstView: Republican revivals? Anton Jäger reflects on the history of republicanism in his review essay of Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence and Bruno Leipold’s @brunoleipold.com Citizen Marx

An intellectual history of Anthropocene politics? António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social analyzes French geographer and imperialist André Siegfried’s environmental geopolitics, from the myth of French rural democracy to the collapse of French global power bit.ly/4n9f4Kp

From MIH Archives: Emma Planinc examines the foundations of Rousseau’s political languages: figurative, imagistic, and modeled on ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

Now on FirstView: Direct action as radical politics? Sean Scalmer analyzes the transnational histories of direct action and of nonviolence drawing attention to previously submerged debates of the radical interwar left

Now on FirstView: Republican revivals? Anton Jäger reflects on the history of republicanism in his review essay of Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence and Bruno Leipold’s @brunoleipold.com Citizen Marx

From MIH Archives: Emma Planinc examines the foundations of Rousseau’s political languages: figurative, imagistic, and modeled on ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

Now on FirstView: Vicarious Sovereignty? Taimur Reza analyzes the place of extraterritorial Turkey in the vision of Bengali Muslims at the turn of the twentieth century (1890–1917)

Now on FirstView: More Marx, Less Marxism? Ulrich Plass reviews the new Princeton edition of Marx’s Capital (Vol. 1) recently translated by Paul Reitte

Now on FirstView: DuBois’s Eugenic Democracy? Inder S. Marwah examines how Darwinism, eugenics, and fin de siècle race sciences shaped W. E. B. Du Bois’s early political ideas on race and racial uplift

Now on FirstView: How can a regime be constituted to provide security and liberty without becoming despotic? Luke Foster analyzes Montesquieu’s case for honor in Publius and Adams during the early U.S. republic

From MIH Archives: Confucian capitalism? Jennifer M. Miller explores the influence of East Asia's economic growth on the evolution of American neoconservative thought and its celebration of traditional values in the 1970s and 1980s

From MIH Archives: The politics of time? Mira L. Siegelberg analyzes J.G.A. Pocock’s debt to Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy in The Machiavellian Moment and examines their disparate responses to the discourse of political crisis during the Cold War

From MIH Archives: Self, Spencer, and Swaraj? Shruti Kapila @shrutikapila.bsky.social examines how the Indian critique of liberalism was concerned with the formation of a new moral language for a politics of the self in the historiography of nationalist thought (1890–1920) bit.ly/4fKSKn5

New MIH Issue: Aestheticizing heroism for an aesthetic liberalism? Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social analyzes Isaiah Berlin on heroes and hero worship

New MIH Issue: Thinking metaphorically? Jason Ferrell analyzes metaphor as method in the writings of Isaiah Berlin’s to demonstrate the moral agency associated with value pluralism

New MIH Issue: How has music shaped liberal thought? Sarah Collins analyzes naivety, liberalism, and Isaiah Berlin’s musical thinking

New MIH Issue: Reading the history of money? Carl Wennerlind analyzes the political and ideological theorization of money in his review essay of Stefan Eich’s The Currency of Politics and George Caffentzis’ Civilizing Money

New MIH Issue: Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social analyzes the history of liberalism in the twentieth century in his review essay of Samuel Moyn’s, Liberalism against Itself @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and Joshua Cherniss’ Liberalism in Dark Times @jcherniss.bsky.social

New MIH Issue: Isaiah Berlin as an internal reformer of liberalism? Alicia Steinmetz illuminates the relationship between Berlin’s liberalism, pluralism, humanism, and “aestheticism” by analyzing his unique approach to the history of ideas

New MIH Issue: Can judgment be taught? Steven Smith examines the role of judgment in the philosophy of Isaiah Berlin

“There is no single or unifiable phenomenon describable as ‘the Enlightenment,’ but it is the definite article rather than the noun which is to be avoided.” The great J.G.A Pocock on historiography and Enlightenment for Modern Intellectual History. Check out his essay here:

New MIH Issue: “A Setting Where Things Can Happen”: Benjamin Serby analyzes the International Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation in London and the politics of knowledge production in the 1960s

New MIH Issue: Gianna Englert reflects on freedom and regeneration in revolutionary France in her review essay of Geneviève Rousselière’s Sharing Freedom and Emma Planinc’s Regenerative Politics

New MIH Issue: An aesthetic approach to intellectual history? Introduction to MIH Forum “Isaiah Berlin and the Aesthetics of Liberalism” by Joshua L. Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social and Sarah Collins

New MIH Issue: Spontaneity and Control? Max Hancock reframes a key moment in the history of neoliberalism by delving into Friedrich Hayek’s and Stafford Beer’s ideas on “self-organization” applied to the design of economic institutions

From MIH Archives: Of savagery and civil society? Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social ‪examines the thought of French anthropologist Pierre Clastres and situates his once-famous depiction of savage politics as a premonitory rejection of the state at the crossroads of several traditions

New MIH Issue: David Chan Smith @dasmith.bsky.social th.bsky.social‬ reconstructs the intellectual history of Milton Friedman's criticism of corporate social responsibility

New MIH Issue: Democratic catastrophe? Alec Dinnin analyzes Ortega y Gasset’s postwar political thought and his theorization of European unification as a corrective to the catastrophes of mass democracy

From MIH Archives: Pragmatic utopianism and race? Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social analyzes H.G. Wells’ role as a pragmatist social thinker by focusing on his assault on prevailing theories of race and the reception of his ideas in the North Atlantic during the early 20th century

New MIH Issue: Structuralist or Lesbian? William M. Burton analyzes Claude Lévi-Strauss and Monique Wittig’s uses of Rousseau’s work as a fulcrum to move beyond binary thought and respond to the political and epistemological challenges of the postwar era

New MIH Issue: Politics and economics in fifth-century Athens? Tim Rood analyzes the intersections of ancient and modern imperialism in Alfred Zimmern’s 1911 monograph The Greek Commonwealth bit.ly/41rlLPQ

Now on FirstView: Anti-anthropocentric humanism? Anin Luo historicizes the emergence of nonhuman personhood and the efforts to dismantle liberalism’s anthropocentrism within the context of shifting humanist politics in the 1970s

New MIH Issue: Race in Marshall’s economics? Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social examines how Alfred Marshall used an evolutionary theory of race to ground individual psychology and explain economic behavior in Britain bit.ly/3Q47gu0

Now on FirstView: Why do we care about the Enlightenment? Sylvana Tomaselli @sylvana-tomaselli.bsky.social reflects on the Enlightenment we want in her review essay of J.C.D. Clark’s The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History and Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment bit.ly/4kLQlKC

New MIH Issue: Does liberalism need free will? Timothy Brennan analyzes Augustinianism, Pelagianism, and the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Now on FirstView: A political economy of state intervention and public good? Cailean Gallagher uncovers the French and Jacobite origins of James Steuart’s political economy which troubled Smith and influenced French revolutionaries, Hegel, and Marx

New MIH Issue: Thinking beyond borders? Pablo Soffia analyzes the global scope of Spanish American historical discourse in the Chilean laboratory, 1830–1860