Review: The New Prophets of Capital

The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the Coming AGI Catastrophe

A close reading of prophetic fiction in the age of artificial superintelligence

Prophet Motives & Knightwork States

The Chain Mail Gaze I: Technology, Capital, Spirituality: An Unholy Trinity?

Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World

Book Review

The Making of a Prophet | Los Angeles Review of Books

Pradeep Niroula lauds Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography, "Inventor of the Future," which soberly fact-checks Buckminster Fuller’s legend.

“We need to reinvent the co-op” – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider

Originally published by Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice in a series on “Cooperatives and Religious Communities.”

A New Introduction to Islam, 4th Edition

A globally expanded, critically engaged introduction to Islam thoroughly updated Now in its Fourth Edition, A New Introduction to Islam combines...

Shari L. Lowin

Biography My research centers on the interplay between Judaism and Islam in the early and early medieval Islamic periods, c. 800-1200 CE, focusing mainly on  the development of Jewish and Muslim exegetical narratives. I am particularly interested in…

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simon…

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Men of Capital in Mandate Palestine

This essay examines Palestinian “men of capital” in British-ruled Palestine. It lays out their historical erasure as the product of settler colonialism; the historiographic dominance of the aristoc...

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days

This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers &#82…

Your Definitive Guide to All of Haruki Murakami’s Books

The great, the good, the not so good, and those we’ll just pretend never happened.

Jonathan Berkey

I teach the full range of Middle Eastern history since the rise of Islam, and I participate in Davidson's Humanities Program. My research and writing focus on Islamic religious culture and medieval Egypt and Syria.

Thomas Piketty’s “Capital”, summarised in four paragraphs

A very brief summary of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"

Michael Thrower Chowdhury on Twitter / X

This book is very good. I started it today and was hooked, am about halfway through already. Cooper assesses the ways in which beliefs in traditional family structures underpin the laissez-faire resurgence of the 1990s. Definitely recommend. pic.twitter.com/hPYnom4XGV— Michael Thrower Chowdhury (@BevansAdvocate) September 27, 2026

Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market

On Christmas day, we had a quiet time this year. One of the things I did was to read Moore, Samuel A., Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (University of Michigan Press, 2025). This is a most enjoyable book that outlines a project and worldview that I know Sam has been cultivating and refining for many years. I should stress that I am not writing a “review” here. I would be conflicted anyway as I am thanked in the acknowledgements. But it did, like all good books, make me think and I wanted to jot down some thoughts. These thoughts are not necessarily novel – sometimes Sam even explores some of them in the book – but I thought it would be enjoyable to express them nonetheless.