They tell the story in a straightforward way, both as political history and as a history of ideas.
There are many ways to practise the history of ideas, and true to the pluralist tenor of his subject, Mr Menand seems happy to employ almost all of them.
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Their commentary may have cultural force in the mainstream media, but it often lacks the sedimentary depth accrued by serious trench work in the history of ideas, science and technology, or philosophy.
My many initiatives and collaborations encompass innovative educational outreach approaches to art and zoological history, ecological anthropology and aesthetics, the history of ideas, exploration, environmental psychology, comparative literature, philosophy and ethics, global biodiversity field research, systematics, deep demography and animal rights.
She is also a historian, with a Cambridge doctorate in early French utopian socialism, followed by a research fellowship in the history of ideas, and she has carved out an estimable place for herself in an energetically brainy family: her father is the biographer A. N.
We need to pay close attention to the role of ideas in shaping history even as the unfolding of events shape ideas in ways unanticipated.
He is a close reader, alive to words and allusions, and steeped in the history and ideas of the period.
This is the first sign of Mr. Ryan's influence, since the strategy is clearly modeled on the congressman's own history of winning on ideas against opponents who resort to cheap attack.
He cites Harvard University's glass-flower collection at its Museum of Natural History as an inexhaustible cache of ideas, for form, content and sheer brazen originality.
Wolfowitz has a history of playing down controversial ideas that emerge under his imprimatur.
Hegel saw history as an evolution of ideas that would culminate in the ideal liberal-democratic state.
With its high octane blend of politics and religion as potent as any of history's grand ideas.
Through thousands of pages of newspaper columns, a novel, a couple of history books and a sort-of memoir runs a thread of ideas that make Mr Johnson an unlikely favourite for grassroots conservatives.
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Norwich has a history of encouraging literature and writers, ideas and print for over 900 years.
The answer, unfortunately, is that in the long history of academia bad scholarship and bad ideas flourish until two conditions are met.
There has been a history of absurd random stock-picking ideas.
Still, if the history of Thatcherism and Reaganism teaches anything, it is that ideas which are dismissed in one decade as the preserve of right-wing eccentrics can quickly move into the mainstream when the ideological wind changes.
It is a tragedy of history, the author concludes, that Voltaire and Rousseau won the battle of ideas, whereas Diderot was reduced to the rank of editor of the encyclopedia, and Holbach was forgotten utterly.
We believe in an America that maintains the strongest, most disciplined, most effective military in the history of the world, but that we also lead with the strength of our ideas and the power of our example.
To avoid legal restrictions and overcome a climate in which anti-Semitism has become unacceptable, extremists are looking for new means to disseminate their nasty ideas and their rewriting of history.
And it is not, in the end, so peculiar to dart back and forth between great ideas, the broad sweep of history and the day-to-day practicalities of politics.
These vast networks carried more than just merchandise and precious commodities: the constant movement and mixing of populations also brought about the transmission of knowledge, ideas, cultures and beliefs, which had a profound impact on the history and civilization of the Eurasian peoples.
He and partner James Yao, a former classmate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have assayed scores of bright ideas in Asiatech's brief history.
Times when cultures are clashing, ideas are being tested and the course of history appears like a giant muddy question mark.
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In history, successful men have had a habit of gathering together to debate ideas and further their learning.
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The history of my industry, information technology, has been driven by truly breakthrough ideas.
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Mostly it was about ideas drawn from history, politics, religion and, most of all, literature.
But experience suggests that opinion makers are often too quick with up-or-down judgments about new ideas, and this hastiness is reflected notably in the history of business innovation.
"What we try to do with our extended fiction is create a kind of 'history' for the universe, from which we can draw ideas, scenarios, characters and events, and connect those to the game in meaningful ways, " said Frank O'Connor, franchise development director at 343 Industries.
Such books regard more earnest matters like history, context, and ideas the way a child looks at a plate of Brussels sprouts.
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