The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
Cats, Lost and Found
For more seasoned readers, these chapters also uncover the feline motifs that, like medieval marginalia, are everywhere on the edges of this history but have mostly escaped notice until now.
Caroline Hovanec reviews Marx for Cats
Is Mutualism Possible?
How can we help locally, but in a way that works economically?
An interview with Sara Horowitz
The Path Not Taken: Reconsidering the Way of Winthrop
Winthrop’s remarkable sermon outside the distorting lens of contemporary American exceptionalism might just help us see that a new way forward—a way of love—is perhaps just a really old way forward.
Douglas Sikkema responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast
A Genealogy of Illness Cost Coverage in the United States
[T]he decline of sickness funds and early community-rated plans transformed a system rooted in voluntarism and mutual aid…
Grant Martsolf on the transition from industrial sickness funds to insurance plans in the United States
Disenchantment and Mass Advertising
Rosenberg reminds us that we can't assume modernity means a sundered sacrality. Rather, our discovery that we can produce the sacred means there is potentially more of it than ever before.
Lyle Enright reviews The Rise of Mass Advertising
Modernity in the Balance
Ideas have afterlives: they live on in subcultures that intentionally preserve them, in practices that have long lost their justification, and in our contradictions and nagging doubts.
John Buchmann offers a genealogy of balance and economics.