Samuel Clowes Huneke is Assistant Professor of Modern German History at George Mason University. His latest book is A Queer Theory of the State. His essays have also appeared in The Point and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Samuel Clowes Huneke is Assistant Professor of Modern German History at George Mason University. His latest book is A Queer Theory of the State. His essays have also appeared in The Point and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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In the 1970s, gay and lesbian West Germans sought to forge political solidarity from sexual identity.
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West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking.
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On the role government should play in times of crisis.
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In our search for a useful past, we need to be careful whom we name as the heroes of queer history.
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