Last week, we held our annual intellectual history workshop where I teach. The event goes on for two days. For the past five years, a group of us have gathered to read together. We usually start with a “primary source” on day one followed by a guest author’s work in progress on day two. The idea is to combine a primary source with a work on its way to completion or just starting out. (Last year, for example, the special guest was our own Andrew Hartman. We read parts of Edmund Wilson’s To the Finland Station on day one, and Read more