My covid year was relatively fine, but it still played havoc on my reading, considering how many hours I had to give up to doomscrolling and rocking quietly in a corner. So my overall list for the year was way down. Here though are my favoured five non-work reads for 2020. Putting them together, I … Continue reading Yearly Faves
Consequences for higher education, work, and the care of bodies. That’s a rather grandiose title for this post, which spruiks just two pieces recently uploaded by historians. But I think they are among the best short things I’ve read this year; and they speak unusually well to each other. The first is by Frances Flanagan, an … Continue reading Historians on the Automated Future
Last year I was honored to launch the latest book by my friend and collaborator, Mike McDonnell. The transcript is below. You are all Mike’s friends and colleagues, so you probably know—or you should know—the basic gist of this book. If you don’t: it’s about the Native Americans who live at the top end of … Continue reading Masters of Empire
