Occupation: Professor Birth: August 27, 1966
Disrupt, and you will be saved..
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determinat….
In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world..
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship,….
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology..
Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s..
You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do..
Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is wri….
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis..
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible..
History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else..
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the futu….
Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father w….
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it..
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an arg….
Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can b….
A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Con….
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, ….
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through..
Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong..
Why do beautiful women love ugly men?.