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Jacob Soll

Jacob Soll is a professor of history and accounting at the University of Southern California. His most recent book is The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations.

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January 7, 2021
Jacob Soll
This Is the Conservative Tradition
A new history traces an anti-democratic politics of hate, repression, paranoia, and revenge to its origins.
April 10, 2019
Jacob Soll
The Making of an Anti-Semitic Myth
Francesca Trivellato’s book on the history of credit debunks a bigoted cliché.
August 20, 2018
Jacob Soll
After the Financial Crisis, A Decade of Damage
Adam Tooze’s new book traces today’s political breakdowns to the 2008 crash.
April 12, 2018
Jacob Soll
How Islam Shaped the Enlightenment
A new book recovers the work of scholars who helped establish greater understanding between religions.
April 3, 2017
Jacob Soll
The Revelatory Horror of The Zookeeper’s Wife
Director Niki Caro has made the first feminist Holocaust movie.
May 21, 2015
Jacob Soll
The Culture of Criticism
What do we owe the Enlightenment?
March 19, 2013
Jacob Soll
Biography of a Torturer
January 10, 2013
Jacob Soll
I Would Prefer Not To—What Paperwork Means in Modern Life
October 17, 2012
Jacob Soll
Accounted For: The Origins of Modern Finance
March 29, 2012
Jacob Soll
History as Fantasy
August 24, 2011
Jacob Soll
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