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 264: The Persian Version
Some 5,000 years ago nomadic peoples of central Asia settled on the Iranian plateau. Their descendants would be the nucleus of an extraordinary empire...
Episode 263: The Man Who Understood Democracy (Part Two)
This is the second and final part of my conversation with Olivier Zunz about his new biography of Alexis de Tocqueville, The Man Who Understood Democracy,...
Episode 262: The Man Who Understood Democracy (Part One)
In 1835 a young French author on the verge of publishing his first book wrote “the best thing that can happen to me is if no one read my book, and...
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,...
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