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Yuval Noah Harari introduces his new book Sapiens: We are far more powerful than our ancestors, but are we much...
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Yuval Noah Harari introduces his new book Sapiens: We are far more powerful than our ancestors, but are we much...
As part of the research for my current book project, I am reading The Great and Holy War, by my colleague Philip...
A great many of our social ills are caused, or at least intensified, by a lack of historical imagination. Imagination...
One small cause of satisfaction for me in the past few years has been the decline of the use of the word...
I haven’t read the book Peter Gordon reviews here, but the conceptual frame of the review interests me. (This is...
See part one here Thirty years after that supernova made its remarkable appearance in Earth’s skies, the Danish...
a superbright supernova Historians have long debated the role that King Charles IX played in the great and terrible St....
Yesterday our study group went to Canterbury, where I wanted us to see not just the famous, enormous, and...
When I read this introductory paragraph to a story by John Noble Wilford — In the thousand years between the decline...
“If Gutenberg were alive today” . . . or how about this: “If Shakespeare were alive today” . . . It’s funny...