The History of Ideas program is grounded in understanding what we have believed and how we have expressed those beliefs over time. Simply put, our goal is to help you examine, through an ...

Jay first chronicled this group in his 1973 book The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research, 1923-50. He is still associated closely with that ...

Americans' freedom of speech is predicated on the theory of a marketplace of ideas. But this model needs to be updated.

MANILA, Philippines — Are you planning your next museum itinerary? The University of the Philippines Manila (UPM) is offering free entrance for the public to its Museum of a History of Ideas every ...

A conversation with the historian Darrin McMahon about his new book Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea and the strange and contradicting development of the liberal version of egalitarianism. Ad ...

The expression 'painful' can be used to describe both an embarrassing moment and a cut on the finger. An explanation for this dichotomy can be found in the convoluted history of ideas about pain.