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Trances, Ecstasies, Raptures, and Levitations: On Carlos Eire’s “They Flew”
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Carlos Eire’s “They Flew: A History of the Impossible.”
Peter B. Kaufman
Peter B. Kaufman works at MIT Open Learning and is the author of The New Enlightenment and The Fight to Free Knowledge (2021). His book The Moving Image: A User’s Guide comes out from the MIT Press in 2025.
Articles
A Crowd of Incompetents: On Peter Burke’s “Ignorance”
Peter B. Kaufman reviews Peter Burke’s “Ignorance: A Global History.”
In Defense of Facts and Expertise: On Ronald J. Daniels’s “What Universities Owe Democracy”
The project of reinvigorating the critical role of the public university has never been more urgent.
Preserving the Archive
An absorbing history of concerted attacks on knowledge, from book burning to bureaucratic neglect.
Freethinkers Versus the Monsterverse: An Excerpt from “The New Enlightenment”
LARB presents an excerpt from Peter B. Kaufman’s “The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge.”
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