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When people think about the Anthropocene—the age in which human activities have become a major force shaping the Earth’s climate, ecosystems, and geology—they usually picture changes on land. Cities expand, forests disappear, industries grow, and transportation networks spread across continents. Yet throughout the years I spent researching and writing Earth’s Amphibious Transformation, I became increasingly […]
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Buying furniture from IKEA often feels like a metaphor for European integration. The pieces arrive separately, the instructions are never quite as straightforward as they seem, and assembling the final product requires patience, compromise, and occasional frustration. The European Union has often been built in much the same way-not according to a single grand design, […]
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Just two years ago, many political elites and policy experts in the United States and other Western countries concluded that the Chinese model of development had failed as China’s economic growth faltered amid the real estate crisis, mounting local government debt, and rising youth unemployment. They denounced Xi Jinping’s concentration of autocratic power, his crackdowns […]
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In the last decade of his life, my paternal grandfather suffered from undiagnosed vascular dementia. During those years, we saw sudden changes in his speech, mood, personality and behaviour, ranging from unprovoked aggression to gloomy withdrawal. His son – my father – is a committed Christian, who believes that every human soul will live forever. […]
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Many years ago I developed an amateur interest in British ecclesiastical history, brought about particularly by reading on holiday Diarmaid MacCulloch’s astonishing biography of Thomas Cranmer (1996); and I thought it would be fascinating to link this interest with my professional work in English historical linguistics and philology, thus contributing to what David Crystal and […]
Read MoreIn 2000, while working in the rare books collection of Mexico’s National Library, I encountered something that caught me off guard. As I flipped through the card catalogue of the Fondo Reservado, I noticed a remarkable increase in commemorative sermons printed during the first two decades of the eighteenth century. Printers in New Spain produced […]
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A society’s true measure of success is its capacity to deal with failure. In the mid–seventeenth century, this is just what we can observe in the city of Amsterdam, at the time one of the world’s prime commercial hubs. In the early modern Dutch Republic, a set of legal, cultural, and institutional innovations resulted in […]
Read MoreAt a moment when many Americans fear the rise of a zealous, sometimes racist, form of populism, when the “bonds of affection” between citizens have demonstrably frayed, and a version of authoritarianism has emerged in Washington, an unsettling question has arisen: should a reasonable person leave the United States? Interestingly, the question is not a […]
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