Disrupt, and you will be saved.

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

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

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

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

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.

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