In my last installment, I outlined how a few colleagues, a couple of podcasts, and a book (pictured) have helped revitalize my identity as an intellectual historian. Deep training and habits as a historian helped me survive strong personal setbacks in 2018. But I needed other sources to help me turn a fresh stream of thought on how I think about myself, in particular, as historian in the field of ideas. Those sources, and American Labyrinth in particular, have reinstalled a sense of solidarity that had been missing. The book’s lessons have enabled a personal revival. However complicated our personal Read more