A History of Private Life, Volume III: Passions of the Renaissance

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• Quartz published an excerpt from Sriya Iyer’s The Economics of Religion in India, on why a growing economy hasn’t curtailed episodes of religious violence; Iyer also spoke with She the People about the book.
• “How the Alt-Right Is Weaponizing the Classics,” an essay excerpted from Donna Zuckerberg’s Not All Dead White Men, was published at Medium.
• Jack Schneider, author of Beyond Test Scores, argued at the Washington Post that the popular idea that “American public schools are in decline” is an illusion.
• A New York Times Magazine feature on the NBC sitcom The Good Place underscored the key role of T. M. Scanlon’s What We Owe to Each Other at the heart of the hit series.
• Condé Nast Traveller highlighted the work of Rohan Murty, founder of the Murty Classical Library of India, in saving—and popularizing—India’s classical literary heritage.

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September 28: Julian Jackson on Charles de Gaulle (part 2)

Julian Jackson's De Gaulle draws on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers in the newly opened de Gaulle archives that show how this volatile and inspiring leader put his broken nation back at the center of world affairs. Following up on our last post, we had just a few more questions for Professor Jackson. Moral leadership is a hot button topic, especially here in the US. What can we learn from de Gaulle’s conception of political greatness and from his understanding of the qualities that make a great leader? JJ: Before he was a political leader after 1940 de Gaulle was a soldier but also a soldier intellectual. He wrote extensively about leadership in the inter-war years, and had reflec…