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 173: Thinking is Human, or, Lost in Thought
Hello, the French thinker Blaise Pascal wrote this when considering the ability of humans to think: Man is but a reed, the weakest thing in nature;...
Episode 172: The Last Voyage of the Whaling Ship Progress
In 1892, the whaling ship Progress under the command of Captain Daniel W. Gifford made an unusual voyage, not out to sea for a two to three year voyage,...
Episode 171: The Gunpowder Revolution, or, China and the West
In 1280 a enormous eruption disturbed the peace of the Chinese city of Yangzhou. It was “like a volcano erupting,” wrote one who experienced it,...
Episode 170: Bound by War, or, the Philippines and the United States in the First Pacific Century
My great-grandfather Louis Corsiglia emigrated to the United States as a boy from Genoa, and he was a lifelong anti-imperialist Democrat. So it followed...
Episode 169: The History of the Future
This week’s conversation is a rather unusual. There’s one guest, as there usually is, but this time there are two hosts—or, two people asking...
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