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 261: The Long Land War
For most of human history, the wealthy of any given society have been those who owned land. Therefore to change concepts of property ownership has been...
Episode 260: The Making of History
Richard Cohen begins his new book Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past with two particularly appropriate epigrams. First,...
Episode 259: In Praise of Good Bookstores
The sociologist Edward Shils said or wrote somewhere that one of the three principle means of education were bookstores—preferably a used bookstore....
Episode 258: The Pursuit of Perfection
Britain in the 1840s should have been, observes Simon Heffer, a time of great social improvement. Instead it was a country that was beset by poverty,...
Episode 257: Inventing a New World Order
In 1814, representatives of the grand coalition that had defeated Napoleon gathered in Vienna. There in meetings and balls–interrupted only by Napoleon’s...
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