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Joshua L. Cherniss is a political theorist whose research centers on twentieth-century political thought, political ethics, and liberalism. An Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, he is the author of

In early America, “pirates” were afoot in the model room of the Patent Office. Inventors were required to submit models with their patent applications, which the Office displayed for the publi...

The Journal of the History of Ideas awards the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history each year.

The winner of the 2025 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize is Luna Sabastian for Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva, published by (

Numerous visions of a post-imperial future proliferated throughout the mid-twentieth century. For this episode of the In Theory podcast, Disha Karnad Jani talks with Derek Ide about his recently released work, Ghosts of Bandung: Black Power and Palestin...

The winner of the JHI’s inaugural Martin Jay Article Prize is Nayeli L. Riano for “The Pueblo and the Politics of History and Historiography in the Writings of Andrés Bello and Francisco Bilbao,” which appeared in volume 86, issue 4 (October 2025). Riano is now an ass...