In Protestant Britain 400 years ago, unless you were fairly rich and powerful, it must have taken extraordinary courage to commit adultery or to fornicate. Even if you were not found out, you could be ...

In attempting to contextualise the murky evolution of freedom of expression, the British historian has instead given encouragement to authoritarians of all stripes The top blurb on Fara Dabhoiwala’s ...

Academic history — the kind backed up by piles of primary-source research and hedged with cautionary remarks — is often useful, but rarely fascinating. Most of it, however, isn’t about a subject as ...

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In two books authored this fall, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and history professor Fara Dabhoiwala offer two sharply diverging views on how universities should navigate free speech.

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