Arts & Humanities

Arts & Humanities

Who Was Émilie du Châtelet? An Interview with Andrea Brill

Émilie du Châtelet helped reshape Enlightenment science and challenged gendered exclusion. As we celebrate Women’s History Month, we explore du Châtelet’s thought, legacy and archival traces in conversation with author Andrea Brill.

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Hannah Arendt in the Twenty-First Century: An Interview With Roger Berkowitz

In times of political instability, readers have repeatedly turned to Hannah Arendt, more often for clarity than for comfort. Her work resurfaces whenever democratic norms begin to erode, insisting on the importance of learning how to think when familiar categories collapse. That task feels newly urgent today.

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Written Out, Written Over: Women* in Church History

For centuries, church history has been told as if only a few voices mattered — and most of them were male. Countless women*’s lives and contributions remain hidden in archives, reduced to footnotes, or overwritten by later interpretations that say more about their interpreters than about them. What happens when we begin to read this history differently and ask not only who is remembered, but who has been made invisible?

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26 Years a Slave: Juan Miranda’s Fight for Freedom in Colonial New York

The 1735 trial of printer John Peter Zenger is remembered as a foundational moment in the history of press freedom in colonial New York. Far less known is the case of Juan Miranda, the first enslaved man to take his enslaver to the colony’s Supreme Court to fight for his own freedom.

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