For Subscribers Macro or Micro? Museum of Science exhibit invites wonder at the world beyond our vision The Museum of Science's new exhibit, Macro or Micro? Challenging our Perceptions of Scale, invites us to contemplate images on… By Catherine Hillcrest · 10 years ago · Updated 2 years ago · 3 min read
For Subscribers Is there a future for representative government? If memory serves correctly, it is a favorite rhetorical strategy among US history teachers to smugly inform their students that we do… By Catherine Hillcrest · 10 years ago · Updated 2 years ago · 5 min read
For Subscribers Rodney Stark challenges anti-Catholic historical tropes in latest release Any person, moderately informed on a topic of current interest, will have experienced the Brandolini law, which can be paraphrased as: the… By Catherine Hillcrest · 10 years ago · Updated 2 years ago · 4 min read
For Subscribers Thinking outside the (reliquary) box: A historicist approach to a socialist emblem "They were happy and lively times … we were alert … to what was happening to people, to poor people, all over the… By Catherine Hillcrest · 10 years ago · Updated 2 years ago · 4 min read
For Subscribers Discovering manuscripts: New dilemmas meet old solutions The recent discovery of 10 lost plays by the beloved mystery writer Agatha Christie highlights a lucrative trend in the publishing world.… By Catherine Hillcrest · 11 years ago · Updated 2 years ago · 3 min read