Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes how, despite being born not far from where the Buddha lived and preached, he had to make a special effort to learn about Buddhism.

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Political theorist Mark Bevir, UC Berkeley, relates his conviction of how political science - and the human sciences in general - differ strongly from the natural sciences in that political science requires acts of interpretation to...

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University of Oxford historian Sir John Elliott describes why the search for historical objectivity implies that it is important for all historians to have one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes how his own upbringing in India is marked by a sense of crisis that he shares with other figures in other places and times.

Historian David Armitage, University of Harvard, relates how examining the historical evolution of key terms and phrases can uncover the many sedimented meanings associated with them, thereby pointing the way to deeper historical...

Intellectual historian Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth) details how investigating the etymology of "genius" naturally led him to a deeper understanding of what he had previously thought was primarily an 18th-century phenomenon.

Historian David Cannadine, Princeton University, describes how, while identity categorisations such as class, gender and race have provided us with important tools to interpret the past, deeper historical understanding will involve the...

Political scientist John Dunn, University of Cambridge, points out that in many ways democracy, civil liberties and capitalism actually oppose one another rather than reinforce each other, as many naively believe.

Historian John Elliott (Oxford) describes the advantages and disadvantages of modern technology's effect on the historical enterprise. While acknowledging the benefits of digitization, he emphasizes the irreplaceable value of physically...

In this video, Harvard historian David Armitage explores the profound significance of civil war to the ancient Romans, highlighting how it was viewed as a paradoxical and deeply unsettling concept. The term "civil war" represented a...

This video explores the ancient world's approach to developing and attributing scientific knowledge, focusing on key figures such as Galen and the systematization of knowledge in the second century AD. It highlights the collaborative and...

Jay Rubenstein, a history professor at the University of Tennessee, shares how his childhood fascination with King Arthur stories led him to study medieval history in college. Initially dismissing the Middle Ages as unimportant, he later...

UC Berkeley historian Martin Jay relates the rich web of ironies and subtleties surrounding the influence, past and present, that the renowned Renaissance political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli has had on our views on the truth in politics.