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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Intellectual Humility Series: What’s Historical Thinking Got to Do With It?
Way back in April, I dropped the first two podcasts in what are intended to be a series on historical thinking and intellectual humility. They were...
Episode 335: PAX
‘If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous,...
Episode 334: Civic Bargain
In 2016, Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk published a chilling essay based on extensive survey data in the Journal of Democracy. It discovered that there...
Episode 333: City of Echoes
An Ambassador from the Kingdom of the Kongo to the Papal Court On July 20, 817, Pope Paschal began a project to transform the Church of Santa Prassede,...
Episode 332: Rome v. Persia
A Sassanid cataphract in Oxford–fortunately a re-enactor From the Ionian revolt of the 490s, through the battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis,...
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