Since I’m new to this blog, I thought I would introduce myself to readers by pointing to my regular blog, U.S. Intellectual History, which won the 2010 Cliopatria Award for “best group blog.” We are an academic blog but we feature plenty of political content. Here is a small sample of the work we do:

Andrew Hartman, “‘When the Zulus Produce a Tolstoy We Will Read Him’: Charles Taylor and the Politics of Recognition” In this post I explore some of the intellectual history of multiculturalism via Charles Taylor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Franz Fanon, and Lynne Cheney, among others.

Ben Alpers, “The Strange Transatlantic Career of Neoliberalism” This was part of a long back-and-forth we had on neoliberalism (read it all here). Ben did some important spadework, disaggregating the original use of the concept “neoliberalism” in the United States, where it referred to a small group of Democrats led by Gary Hart who sought to mildly offer an alternative to the paleo-liberalism of politicians beholden to big unions, from the European and Latin American use of neoliberalism, which quickly became the global use of the term, and which related to capitalism on steroids.