Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, joins the Zero podcast to discuss whether climate change and AI make our society ...

I’m on a text chain with my 3 brothers and all our sons. All of us are liberal arts majors, mostly history. I dare say we Smiths are a bit contrarian. It’s our knowledge of history and learning the ...

The Scottish poet, novelist, and historian Andrew Lang once quipped that politicians use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: “for support rather than illumination.” Indeed, the same line ...

Opportunities are born of crisis, but the lines that connect them are far from direct Events of recent years, and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, have forced all of us to ...

History, the study of documented events and change over time, is at its foundation the study of people—singularly and collectively, with their shared and conflicting natures, choices, attitudes and ...

Like the super-majority of Americans, I'm directly related to a family of immigrants. As is true for so many millions of my fellow Americans, what motivated my grandparents to leave their native ...

In our modern age, we have convinced ourselves that we are so advanced, so enlightened, that the lessons of the past no longer apply to us. We act as though history is an outdated relic—something for ...

Since long before Isaiah prophesied that nations would beat their swords into plowshares, men of good will have dreamed the noble dream of disarmament and everlasting peace. Great thinkers and artists ...

We can’t change history, but we can learn from it. As a rule, professional historians are loath to draw explicit lessons from the past. We leave that to popularizers and to figures like Lord Acton or ...