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 187: The Light Ages
Hello, in 1951 a young historian of science named Derek Price was examining a medieval manuscript in the library of Peterhouse College in Cambridge....
Episode 186: Think More Like Shakespeare
Based simply on the title, I never would have thought I would be recording a conversation with someone who wrote a book titled How to Think Like Shakespeare:...
Episode 185: The Anvil and Forge That Created the Modern World
For generations, both Asians and Europeans have thought of the Silk Road has been thought of as a highway connecting east to west. But what if both...
Episode 184: This is Sparta
Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι. Stranger,...
Episode 183: Dante’s Bones, or, A History of the Idea of Italy
In 1321 Dante Alighieri died in the city of Ravenna, near the shores of the Adriatic. In the years since his perpetual exile from his native Florence,...
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