Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

In antihistory, time is an illusion.