Most journalists believe in their heart that they “have a book in them.” Too often, however, events and circumstance prevent most reporters from digging into that compelling story. Reporting assignments pile up. Your editor says, “Leave of...

Although “Franken” has in the cultural zeitgeist become a watchword for the power of science to destroy humanity, Mary Shelley had a far more open view of science. Don’t mistake the messenger, Victor,  for the message.  In fact, in her day, “...

A pair of Haverford College librarians recently published "False Starts and Breakthroughs:...

One of the claims I make in Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century is that the feeling of not having time to read is...

Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay came...

For generations, school children remembered the Webster-Hayne Debate by memorizing the ending to Daniel Webster’s Second Reply to Robert Y. Hayne. Its soaring articulation of nationalism and American nationhood—“Liberty and Union, now...