I’ve been reading Global Crisis: War, Climate Change & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Yale Univ. Press, 2013) by Ohio State history professor Geoffrey Parker. Parker has…
My father read widely on archaeology all his years. On his bookshelves I recall a book whose title, if not its contents, fascinated me: The Mute Stones Speak. Those words…
Everyone’s heard the phrase, ‘rich as Croesus’. Very few know that Croesus was the last king of the Lydians 2600 years ago. A lecture on March 30th at…
Like many of my peers, I stopped reading The New York Times Tom Friedman years ago largely because of his views on trade. His March 2 column, ‘This is just…