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The Ancient Greek historian Plutarch is known for his incisive essays in Moralia, a collection that reads like a modern-day ...

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Historian Thomas Wermuth says New York — not New England — was the strategic heart of the American Revolution.

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An Introduction to Ergodicity Economics is a new textbook that draws on physics to re-examine traditional economic theory. It begins with flipping a coin. And a hypothetical gambit. Imagine you were ...

In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires. A detail from Samuel Colman’s “The Edge of Doom” (1836-38).Credit...Samuel ...

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John Gregory Dunne’s engrossing 1974 book chronicles a search for “salvation without commitment” in Sin City. By Andrew Martin Andrew Martin is the author of “Early Work,” “Cool for America” and the ...