Update on New BookMy latest book, Why the Enlightenment Matters: The Shift in Our Thinking That Made the Modern World, has been published by Australian…Sep 19, 2023Sep 19, 2023
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How Much Did Winston Churchill Actually Drink?The British wartime PM’s very expensive habitJan 13, 2022Jan 13, 2022
The Quest for the Wreck of the TitanicThe Inaccurate C.Q.D call, the box office bomb, and the Texas oil millionaire with a trained monkeyJan 3, 2022Jan 3, 2022
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The Last Person Sentenced to Death in AustraliaBrenda Hodge’s troubling story and the final abolition of capital punishment in the countryNov 29, 2021Nov 29, 2021
All Hail the Daylight Sky FatherWhat can we learn about the chief god of the prehistoric Indo-Europeans from their descendants?Nov 8, 20212Nov 8, 20212
Why Isn’t Canada Part of the United States?How some British colonies in North America stayed out of the RevolutionOct 30, 20211Oct 30, 20211