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 266: Happy Dreams of Liberty
Hello, when Samuel Townsend died in 1856 near Huntsville, Alabama, he was the era’s equivalent of a multimillionaire. He had thousands of acres of...
Episode 265: How to Win a Power Struggle
You might as well admit it; you’ve always wondered how you would do in a vicious struggle for power. Those thoughts might be prompted by an over-long...
Episode 264: The Persian Version
Some 5,000 years ago nomadic peoples of central Asia settled on the Iranian plateau. Their descendants would be the nucleus of an extraordinary empire...
Episode 263: The Man Who Understood Democracy (Part Two)
This is the second and final part of my conversation with Olivier Zunz about his new biography of Alexis de Tocqueville, The Man Who Understood Democracy,...
Episode 262: The Man Who Understood Democracy (Part One)
In 1835 a young French author on the verge of publishing his first book wrote “the best thing that can happen to me is if no one read my book, and...
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