This month, I’m doing something a little different with my column: I’m sharing the system I use to write it, so that you can use or adapt my system.

Well-researched stories from NPR, Washington Post, and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

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When Parley's Illuminated Library published a pirated version of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens decided he had had enough.

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A templated response to any situation is the antithesis of an emotionally in-tune reaction.

Remembering the work of the great naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, on the 250th anniversary of his birth.

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The Oneida Community's Christian form of collectivism was transported to California in the 1880s, when the original Oneida Community fell apart.