Literary Cafes Were Once Third Spaces That Bridged Divide
Literary cafés in prewar Central Europe fostered cosmopolitan intellectual exchange across national, religious, and class divisions, sustaining creativity amid rising nationalism and antisemitism.
Marxism significantly influenced American politics, labor movements, intellectual life, and culture across the 19th–21st centuries despite Marx never visiting the United States.
A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review comfortably dumb?
Stupidity is a multifaceted, historically shifting concept with definitional ambiguity, encompassing ignorance, foolishness, obtuseness, and cognitive failings reframed by the Enlightenment.