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  • The Genius of Byzantium: Reflections on a Forgotten Empire

    The Genius of Byzantium: Reflections on a Forgotten Empire1

    “Le grand absent—c’est l’Empire” C. Dufour, Constantinople Imaginaire Everywhere Western man longs for Constantinople and nowhere has he any idea how to find her. To do so is to reclaim, at last, the meaning of an empire that once defined a hierarchy of imagination long ago abandoned by our civilization; of an eleven-century political, religious and

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  • Princeton Prof: Why it’s Dangerous to Overlook the Past

    Princeton Prof: Why it’s Dangerous to Overlook the Past1

    Not long ago, my colleague Daniel Lattier suggested that a new logical fallacy has been lurking around town. This fallacy, he wrote, could be labeled “ad nostalgiam.” A person commits this fallacy when she reflexively accuses someone of nostalgia for pointing out some particular thing was once better or superior. Revered Princeton professor, theologian, and

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  • Hormonal Contraception Linked to Depression, Study Finds

    Hormonal Contraception Linked to Depression, Study Finds0

    It’s been reported by many smaller publications, but finally the big news sources are onto it: the pill increases your chance of developing depression. This time, the statistics are coming from an article in a leading journal, JAMA Psychiatry. The research was done in Denmark and the study is huge – it involved over a

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  • Were Native Americans the First Conservationists?

    Were Native Americans the First Conservationists?0

    Over the past several decades, the environmental movement has promoted a view of American Indians as the “original conservationists.” References to this image abound: “The Indians were, in truth, the pioneer ecologists of this country,” former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall once said. “For many thousands of years, most of the indigenous nations on

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  • How a Mother’s Voice Shapes Her Baby’s Developing Brain

    How a Mother’s Voice Shapes Her Baby’s Developing Brain0

    It is no surprise that a child prefers its mother’s voice to those of strangers. Beginning in the womb, a foetus’s developing auditory pathways sense the sounds and vibrations of its mother. Soon after birth, a child can identify its mother’s voice and will work to hear her voice better over unfamiliar female voices. A

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  • What America’s First Student-Led Rebellion Looked Like

    What America’s First Student-Led Rebellion Looked Like0

    In 1834, a 30-year-old seminary student named Theodore Dwight Weld led what is arguably the most successful student rebellion in U.S. history. It took place near Cincinnati at Lane Theological Seminary, where Weld had enrolled the previous year after dedicating his life to a single cause: the abolition of slavery. “Abolition immediate universal is my desire

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