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Who could have imagined this kind of success for a scientific blog on bilingualism?In 2016, François Grosjean was interviewed about his Psychology Today blog, “Life as a bilingual”, by Ewa...
More than a century after Einstein formulated General Relativity (GR), black holes are firmly established as one of its most striking and inescapable consequences. This realisation itself arrived only...
Over the years I have become increasingly fascinated by the relationship of ancient Rome to the United States, not as the source of particular institutions or a political vocabulary, but as revealing...
The universal feeling of being a stranger in a strange land helped motivate this book. When I first moved to the Maryland coast to start a postdoc, I was stunned by its varied beauty and, coming from...
In my book on the birth of the psychoanalytic periodicals, I re-read favorite essays by Freud and Jung in the context of an entire issue in reverse chronological order (like Freud told us to do). It...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is known for its comprehensive Assessment Reports about the state of scientific, technical and socio-economic knowledge on climate change, and about...
Donald Trump’s presidency has done more damage to America’s political institutions than most people realize. I explain how in my new book, Institutions Under Siege: Donald Trump’s Attack on...
Unfortunately economics has a bad reputation. Its policy prescriptions are often seen as unfair, and its methods based on a world of fanciful assumptions. In its application in the public sector, it is...
Travel about twenty-five miles south from my house and eighty-seven years back in time and you’d have a shot at encountering one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists taking the picture...
In my book The Old Enemies (CUP) I described 1845 as ‘a year of religious crises’. Later, when looking at broader trends that year, I was surprised by the sustained intensity of crises that also arose...
Well over a decade ago, scholars acknowledged an “affective turn” or “turn to emotions” taking place across disciplines. Yet within the “turn to emotion,” certain types of emotion still turn...
Human beings are explanation-seeking creatures. When something happens in our lives or in the world around us, we long for a satisfying understanding of it. That sense of satisfaction usually only emerges...
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