Laura M. Slot is a historian and writer with a focus on outsiders in twentieth century intellectual history, the history of ideas. She received graduate degrees from the department of History at Utrecht University in The Netherlands and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York.

Slot’s first book described the limits of philosopher Bertrand Russell’s pacifism and her other writings have appeared in American and Dutch publications. Her second book will be published by Old Revolutions Press Fall 2026.

On December 19, 2023, Laura’s blogs moved from this website to Old Revolutions.Com: The Old in New Light, The New in Old.