Historically Thinking
We believe that when people think historically, they are engaging in a disciplined way of thinking about the world and its past. We believe it gives thinkers a knack for recognizing nonsense; and that it cultivates not only intellectual curiosity and rigo
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Episode 340: Price of Collapse
“We live in a world that feels as though it is in the grip of rapid and capricious change. To rescue ourselves from the distress and dismay that change...
Episode 339: Hollow Crown
The plays of William Shakespeare contain within them a whole world of human action and purpose. They are, said Samuel Johnson, "a faithful mirror of...
Episode 338: Rivals
“The scientific community is by any measure a very strange kind of community”, writes my guest. “For starters, no one knows who exactly belongs...
Episode 337: Disorder
"Today’s international system is like a ship adrift during a pandemic. With the captain lost to the virus, and the most capable and conscientious...
Episode 336: Tory’s Wife
In 1785, Jane Welborn Spurgin of Abbots Creek in Rowan County, North Carolina petititioned the North Carolina Legislature, attesting her right to 704...
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