History: The Past for Now

When Science Went Global

Reviewing ‘Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science’ by James Poskett

Mar 13 •

Consult the Index: The Good Stuff Is in the Back

The Story of an Underrated Information Technology: Reviewing ‘Index, a History of the’ by Dennis Duncan

Feb 24 •

Unclear Sailing: The Adventure of Knowing

Exploring the Puzzle of Polynesia. Reviewing ‘Sea People’ by Christina Thompson

Feb 21 •

All There Is to Know, More or Less

Encyclopedic Understanding. An A-to-Z Review of Simon Garfield’s ‘All the Knowledge in the World’

Aug 7, 2023 •

Artificial Authenticity? When Presentation Becomes Personality

Reviewing Tara Isabella Burton’s ‘Self Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians’

Jul 17, 2023 •

On the Go: The Age-Old Human Adventure of Migration

Crossing Borders. Reviewing Sam Miller’s ‘Migrants’ and James Crawford’s ‘The Edge of the Plain’

Jun 12, 2023 •

‘Lead Us Not into Distraction’

What Monks and Nuns Know about Staying Focused. Reviewing Jamie Kreiner’s ‘The Wandering Mind’

May 27, 2023 •

‘Culture Is a Huge Recycling Project’

Is Appropriation Appropriate? Depends on What We Mean. Martin Puchner’s ‘Culture: The Story of Us from Cave Art to K-Pop’

May 13, 2023 •

Ideas Are Tools, and Words Can Heal

An African American History of Literacy and Liberation, and What Their Words Mean for Us All

Mar 4, 2023 •

The Cult of Authenticity: Life in the 1990s

Grunge, the Internet, and the Dotted Line to Right Now. Reviewing ‘The Nineties’ by Chuck Klosterman

Feb 18, 2023 •

Globalization and Its Discontents: 16th Century Edition

Competing Stories about the World. Reviewing ‘The History of Water’ by Edward Wilson-Lee

Jan 7, 2023 •

The Future Is Africa: Time to Understand Its Past

Reviewing Dipo Faloyin’s ‘Africa Is not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent’

Dec 3, 2022 •

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