It is this backward glance, careful and sustained, at who we used to be, that will give us back the image of who we are now and what possibilities the future might hold.

Kirsten Hall considers the appeal of the 18th century and “2001: A Space Odyssey”

We may still take the best of what calling cards have to offer: a more robust etiquette for managing our digital, social lives on a more humane timescale.

Kirsten Hall loses her phone and looks to the 18th Century for guidance.

Ultimately, nobody is interested in hermeneutics and intertextuality for their own sake … but everyone wants to know what is real and how we should live, and if books can help us there, interpretation becomes intensely interesting.

Kathryn Mogk rediscovers reading with Augustine.

Kirsten Hall explores the components of modern romance from Samuel Johnson to Noah Baumbach.

Kirsten Hall responds to David Brooks and the decline of the nuclear family.

Kirsten Hall addresses problems with pedagogy in today’s classrooms and creates a genealogical syllabus.

Kirsten Hall looks at the popular Netflix show and our historical fixation with the “rake”

Kirsten Hall explains how college survey courses don’t always get history right and finds the delightful oddities of the 18th Century