We are at the beginning of a medical revolution. We can now genetically engineer pigs who are immune to deadly diseases and (as I wrote elsewhere) we can
In one of her essays, one of my favorite historians, Barbara Tuchman, defined history as “emotion plus action recollected or, in the case of latter-day historians, reflected on
The Revolution matters in American politics; matters in ways that are perhaps inexplicable to most Europeans. In matters as diverse (and as modern) as healthcare reform, religion in
In one of her columns, Barbara Wallraff once exclaimed, “What is it about language that gets people so riled?” Oliver Kamm, in his really quite excellent book Accidence