A collection of 350 posts
A review of Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet by Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley. (August 2022)
We should reject an unfalsifiable frame that can make anything and everything offensive or problematic, no matter how innocuous.
Reflections on Polish resistance.
Academics who study ancient Paleoindian populations are increasingly being denied access to skeletons, artifacts, and even old x-rays and research reports. We need to start fighting back
A new book by Orlando Figes explores the role of Russian history in the Ukranian war.
Revisiting the attack on Nat King Cole.
The dangers of forfeiting societal sustainability.
The Greeks were the first of all peoples to look at themselves in the mirror.
Leonard Cohen’s visit to Israel in its darkest hour.
A dozen journals left to us by my wife’s Scottish grandmother were destined for the recycling bin—until we took a look at what was inside.
Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
As the Holy Roman Empire descended into religious conflicts, its Habsburg ruler surrounded himself with magicians, astrologers, and scryers.
An American family descended from Serbian and Croatian immigrants finds a way to overcome old-world hatreds.
Herf tells the complicated and often surprising story of the internal political struggles in Western capitals, as well as in the halls of the United Nations, that erupted at the end of the Second World War.
Williams, W. A. (1962). The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: Dell Pub. Co. When the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) pinned Putin’s recent invasion of Ukraine on NATO’s “imperialist expansionism,” many policymakers and journalists on both sides of the political spectrum lambasted the organization for its half-hearted