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Every Friday during the month of March, This Side of the Pond will feature correspondence drawn from Coming of Age With Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea, a collection of more than 500 letters...
Watch The King James Bible author David Norton’s lecture “The English Word,” courtesy of byutv. Read More ?
Dirk Vandewalle, author of A History of Modern Libya, sheds light on the many incarnations of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in an NYTimes op-ed. Read More ?
Black radical historian, scholar and agitator-prophet W.E.B. Du Bois (who was born during Andrew Johnson’s administration in 1868 and died shortly before Lyndon Johnson’s presidency in 1963)...
Shelley Baranowski, the author of Nazi Empire, discusses German nationalism and the rise of the Third Reich.
When he created his guidelines for orators, the Roman philosopher Cicero claimed that great speeches should contain three things: technique, substance, and passion. Speakers should use classical techniques that emphasize logic and lyrical rhythm; they should speak with knowledge and moral purpose; and they should be able to project character and emotion when appropriate.
Today, no one can deny the importance of consumption to the American economy. By some counts, consumer spending constitutes over seventy percent of our GNP, and the countdown to special winter shopping...
Here’s an interesting thing. Many professors despise the idea that technology drives history. “Technological determinism,” they say, is a cardinal intellectual mistake like belief in the tooth fairy....
The Israeli economy is characterized by extremes: fast growth, sophisticated technological development, large defense spending as well as poverty and inequality. The discovery of very large gas reserves...
100 years ago, Cambridge published a book that transformed the study of mathematics and laid the foundations for the computer age. The Principia Mathematica is the most famous work ever published on the...
Roger Williams (1603-1683) is the first person profiled in Radicals in Their Own Time, and he exemplifies the qualities that define a radical. Williams moved from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
Last Friday The Globe and Mail included Allan Hutchinson’s Is Eating People Wrong in their weekly round-up of books worth a look, calling it “fascinating, learned and anecdotally rich.”...
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