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To be convalescent, in the nineteenth century, was to have survived a medical crisis and to be still picking up the pieces. The category of convalescence could be applied to the survival of all kinds...
What inspired this book? Colloidal suspension rheology continues to be among the most active areas of research in the field of soft matter as evidenced from the literature and among the most subscribed...
In 2016, a major environmental crisis occurred: much of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef bleached and died. The Barrier Reef is one of the natural wonders of the world, home to thousands of species,...
In my experience, people exhibit an innate fascination with the self and, specifically, the extent to which they are able to command, regulate, or control it. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle each spoke...
What can we gain, as historians, if we look closely at the history of refugees in Britain? In my new book I argue that it can illuminate all sorts of unexpected areas of British life, society, and government,...
Why does art even have a history, asked Ernst Gombrich in his classic book Art and Illusion? We might suppose, for instance, that everyone’s pictures would be different, a stylistic jumble resulting...
The first three editions of Measuring Behaviour were co-authored by Patrick Bateson, known as Pat to his family and friends, and his former graduate student Paul Martin. I had a very special relationship...
Amidst surges of right- and left-wing populisms—from Trumpian Tea Parties to Black Lives Matter—one cannot avoid hearing accusations that one or another opponent is “divisive” and intolerant....
In a passage of A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf reported that Italian men of letters had expressed their hope – in a telegram to il Duce Benito Mussolini – that ‘the Fascist era would soon...
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 are often understood in dichotomy: Americans as those who used the bombs, the Japanese as those affected. I wanted to break the dichotomy by writing...
Governmental responses to the Covid 19 pandemic—in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere—have been deeply inequitable. People of color and people living in low-income households and neighborhoods...
What are the humanities? Who needs the humanities? Two questions I needed to address when I became dean of a School of Humanities. Those questions are not merely relevant in university politics. They...
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