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By the time I wrote Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric: Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy, I’d spent thirty years loitering at the margins of medieval texts–squinting in the half-light,...
This book grew out of two entwined questions. One has followed me throughout my academic career: what are the origins and nature of modern liberal society? The other came into view more clearly...
“I know a person when I talk to it.” With these words Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines in June 2022, thinking that a Google chatbot had become sentient. Google did not appreciate these...
I get this question a lot—usually just after I tell people that I’ve written a book on sarcasm in the Bible. So, to answer this question for all time: yes, there is sarcasm in the Bible. If there...
“Life as a Bilingual” – a highly successful blog and now a new Cambridge book Back in 2016, Cambridge Extra published an interview[1] of François Grosjean[2], a recognized expert...
Today’s media increasingly serves us clickbait climate histories. Headlines prompt us to read how the city-states of the Maya collapsed because of drought, how massive empires like that of the Neo-Assyrians...
I am a British neurologist who has practiced in London for over 45 years and specialising in epilepsy (at the ‘National Hospital, Queen Square’, originally called at the National Hospital for the...
In the German elections of 1912, the Social Democrats emerged as the largest party in the Reichstag. When assessing what this meant for a proud imperial monarchy led by as bombastic a figure as Emperor...
When you think about Latin American literature, you might first recall the magical realist novels that hit the international literary markets in the mid-twentieth century. This region’s literature might...
Counterinsurgent warfare is perhaps the dominant form of armed conflict of recent decades. Moreover, its counterrevolutionary variants and antecedents have been with us for centuries. My new book, The...
Warren Buffet famously remarked: ‘only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked’. Given his success with a common-sensical and longer-term perspective on money and investing,...
When the COVID-19 pandemic brought normal life to a halt in 2020, thousands of people around the globe began reading Lev Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Virtual reading groups, forums, and op-eds peppered...
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