History
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Wrangel Island Mammoths: The last ones died 4,000 years ago
For hundreds of years after the pyramids of Giza had been completed, mammoths still roamed Wrangel Island off the northern coast of Siberia. Around the…
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The Rational Optimist: Matt Ridley’s ode to freedom
Reading and thinking about Birds, Sex & Beauty by Matt Ridely reminded me of his other books I’ve read over the years. He’s a wonderful…
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Life Without Clocks or Mirrors: What would it be like?
I’ve always been immoderatly clock-oriented. But that was part of what seemed wrong with my infrequent periods of actual labor: the deadly predictability of jobs…
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1933 and 2025: Weimar Germany doesn’t help us understand the current situation
To the degree it is possible for any one born in the 1980s, I have a sense for what occurred in Germany in the run-up…
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Greatness Can’t Be Planned: Grand strategies may be futile
No plan survives first contact with the enemy Helmuth von Moltke The plans are nothing, but the planning is everything Dwight Eisenhower I haven’t seen…
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Rome Was Different: Why America isn’t a New Rome
In SPQR, Mary Beard provides an overview of the history of ancient Rome from its founding to the first century AD. She knows her stuff and…
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