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 234: The Fall of Robespierre
“We seek an order of things in which all the base and cruel passions are enchained, all the beneficent and generous passions are awakened by the laws;...
Episode 233: Generation Myth
Each year millions and millions of whatever currency you’d care to have are spent explaining generations to one another. Inherent in that expensive...
Episode 232: Talking About Each Other’s Gods
In 1924 the eminent nerve-specialist Sir Roderick Glossop urged Bertie Wooster and his friend Charles “Biffy” Biffen to attend the British Empire...
Episode 231: Multiple Perspectives, or, Seeing the Same Thing in Different Ways
This is another episode in our year-long series about the skills of historical thinking, and today our focus is on multiple perspectives. Putting it...
Episode 230: What the Amish Can Do For Us
When people speak of “the Amish” they are using a very simple term that covers over rather than reveals. It’s a term that applies to forty affliations...
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