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 222: The Chemistry of Fear
The wrong food can kill you. The right kind of food can help you live longer. Additives are unnatural. Unnatural food is unhealthy food. These are...
Episode 221: Prohibition Wasn’t American
Carrie Nation was, of course, a prohibitionist. But so was Leo Tolstoy, Czar Nicholas II, and Vladimir Lenin; in fact, the first nation to prohibit...
Episode 220: From the Archive, The First Three Weeks of College
For many colleges, this is the first week of class. And that means for both new teachers and new students, it's the beginning of one of three weeks...
Episode 219: The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome
Edward Gibbon tells us that it was in the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter while listening to the singing of the barefooted friars that he first began...
Episode 218: To Her Credit
In 1756 an unmarried Quaker woman wrote “Deborah Morris, her book, 1756” in, of all things, a book entitled The American Instructor, or, Young Man’s...
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