Thanks to fellow USIH blogger Pete Kuryla, I spent the last two days in Nashville talking about Marx in America. Pete organizes an annual seminar on U.S. intellectual history. He invites one outside scholar to spend two days at Belmont University talking books and ideas with him and his engaging colleagues from the history, English, and philosophy departments. One day is dedicated to discussing the visitor’s work—we discussed my preliminary work on “Karl Marx in America,” which was so incredibly helpful not to mention fun. Another day is dedicated to discussing a classic text in the same orbit, and for Read more