History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

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.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.