I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.
The world is full of wonders that cannot be measured. That is why they are wonders.
In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.
Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.
I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.