His Own Romantic Adventures

His Own Romantic Adventures

Alex Fogel Author Interview In His Daddy’s Car, a man finds himself entangled in a mystery involving the disappearance of his high school love when he moves to Texas. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story? While organizing my own high school class reunion, I considered the numerous former classmates that we had been unable to track down. I had the off-hand thought that, “Maybe they have all gone into the federal witness protection…

The Spread of Romantic Nationalism across Europe: A Case of Ideational Diffusion

Romantic nationalism profoundly transformed the intellectual culture of Europe. Similar to other well-studied cases of the global diffusion of culture, such as Protestantism or democracy, romantic nationalism was extraordinarily consequential for the political organization of the world. It prepared the ground for the nationalist political revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries, which radically changed the political landscape of Europe and be…