An excerpt from Professor Rosemary Salomone’s book The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language (Oxford University Press, 2021) has been published in the latest issue of The Millions, an online literary magazine.

The excerpt, from the book’s Introduction, opens with the Marquis de Condorcet’s The Progress of the Human Mind and Dante Alighieri’s La Divina Commedia to lay the groundwork for a global discussion on language, equality of knowledge, identity, and democracy.