the Roman world and ours, continued
To pick up where I left off last time: Imagine that you are a historian in the far future: say, a hundred thousand...
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To pick up where I left off last time: Imagine that you are a historian in the far future: say, a hundred thousand...
When I think, as I often do, and will continue to do in a slow way* for the next few years, about a possible...
Everything connects; but teasing out the connections in intelligible and useful ways is hard. The book I’m currently...
The intimate relationship between the printing press and the Reformation has long been understood, and if anything has...
Regular readers of this blog may remember a few months ago some posts revolving around 79 Theses on Technology that The...
Until this morning I was certain that I had posted this some weeks ago … but I can’t find it. So maybe not....
In the last couple of weeks I have published three posts over at The American Conservative on disagreement and its...
Ivan Illich, “Philosophy… Artifacts… Friendship” (1996): The person today who feels called to a...
Every few days, it seems, I come across a rueful, even mournful citation of T. S. Eliot: “Where is the wisdom we have...
One way to pursue the technological history of modernity is to try to understand how news and ideas got around at any...