Some transitions of authority apparently read the same regardless of which century or which side of the Atlantic Watching this month’s Downing Street leadership handover …
Twenty five thousand people in Trafalgar Square, and my brain went straight to a century old literary device Reading about ChessFest’s enormous turnout in Trafalgar …
Eighteenth century American visitors’ actual reactions to London grandeur turn out to be genuinely useful reading Ahead of reading up on Buckingham Palace’s current summer …
Stephanie finds classical company in colonial literature Read the piece on the Greek gods applauding The Odyssey and thought immediately of the long transatlantic crossing …
Stephanie finds an old genre in a new headline Spent the morning with eighteenth-century colonial pamphlets on self-governance, and found myself reading the latest on …
Stephanie on inherited institutional language Read that Guardian CEO pay has reached five million pounds and thought immediately of eighteenth-century colonial governors justifying their own …
Stephanie finds old precedent in new debt Read that Spain has filed for bankruptcy and thought immediately of the colonial-era debt spirals documented so thoroughly …
Diary entry exploring eighteenth century colonial literature and what literary analysis reveals about imperial ideology and resistance narratives What Defoe Doesn’t Say I’ve been studying …
Eighteenth-century writers developed deep skepticism toward centralized administrative schemes that assumed rational planners could improve upon organically evolved local practices. Free soccer represents exactly this …
The founding generation developed skepticism toward centralized administration through direct experience of British colonial overreach. Free soccer proposes exactly the kind of centralization that tradition …
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