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A compelling way to renew the study of our collective past. In the spring of 1979, in my second semester of college teaching (as a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin), an absolutely brilliant undergraduate wrote a scathing critique of dependency theory. That theory, associated with the German American economic historian Andre Gunder Frank, the Guyanese historian Walter Rodney and the Argentine and Brazilian economists Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado, among others, emphasized the...

This has been a year of very big changes for the Williams family, as my oldest graduated high school, I walked away from academia after 15 years, and then

As Covid-19 continues to rage across the planet I think it is fair to say that many of us were taken by surprise by just how easily everything seems to have collapsed. We live in the 21st century, we…

As Covid-19 continues to rage across the planet I think it is fair to say that many of us were taken by surprise by just how easily everything seems to have collapsed. We live in the 21st century, we…

To arrive in Venice by train is to enter through the city's back door, although the exit from the station's drab interior straight onto a Grand Canal bustling with waterborne traffic and lined with palazzi in ochre, cream and pink is a coup de theâtre that few other destinations can match. But Venice was always meant to be entered by...

Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.

The Inescapable Dilemma of Infectious Disease from Boston Review. Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.