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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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The Great and Holy War
As part of the research for my current book project, I am reading The Great and Holy War, by my colleague Philip...
triumphalism and historical imagination
A great many of our social ills are caused, or at least intensified, by a lack of historical imagination. Imagination...
the Baconians of Mountain View
One small cause of satisfaction for me in the past few years has been the decline of the use of the word...
on philosophical religion
I haven’t read the book Peter Gordon reviews here, but the conceptual frame of the review interests me. (This is...
the supernova (concluded)
See part one here Thirty years after that supernova made its remarkable appearance in Earth’s skies, the Danish...
the supernova (1)
a superbright supernova Historians have long debated the role that King Charles IX played in the great and terrible St....
historical knowledge
Yesterday our study group went to Canterbury, where I wanted us to see not just the famous, enormous, and...
benighted
When I read this introductory paragraph to a story by John Noble Wilford — In the thousand years between the decline...
“if X were alive today . . . “
“If Gutenberg were alive today” . . . or how about this: “If Shakespeare were alive today” . . . It’s funny...