The New England Option in Action
In January, shortly after the inauguration, I floated the idea of The New England Option, a thought experiment about a
Writing the History of the Future with Google Gemini
With the end of the semester, I have been experimenting with Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (preview) to see how
The New England Option
As an academic researcher with at least three current and several pending federal grants, this week has left me with
Briefly Noted for May 27, 2021
I read Zach Carter's magisterial biography of John Maynard Keynes, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the
Rethinking ROI
This semester I'll be co-chairing our President's "Life-Transformative Education" task force, a signature initiative
Briefly Noted for October 24, 2018
Caitlin Flanagan's eloquent description of how histories, true or false, operate in families (e.g. Elizabeth Warren'
In their own words: How tech leaders can help you argue for the humanities
I firmly believe the case for the humanities is best made on its own terms. Rather than bending pretzel-like to
What The New Yorker Got Wrong About Lawrence Lessig
In its October 13, 2014 article about Lawrence Lessig's Mayday PAC, The New Yorker writes:
In 2001, Lessig
Truth (happily) stranger than fiction
I recently finished rereading, for the first time in many years, one of my childhood favorites, Ray Bradbury's
(Very Nearly) Fighting Over History in the Ohio Senate
Despite media claims, polling data, and bureaucratic number crunching to the contrary, one of the main contentions of Found History
