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Jethro K. Lieberman

Jethro K. Lieberman is the author of many books, including The Litigious Society and A Practical Companion to the Constitution.

Physics for the Feeble-Minded

Physics for the Feeble-Minded

A crash course on our boundlessly bizarre universe

by Jethro K. Lieberman | Monday, August 09, 2021
The Gravity of the Situation

The Gravity of the Situation

Popular physics books make science cheap, easy, and entertaining. The problem is, they often mislead.

by Jethro K. Lieberman | Tuesday, September 01, 2020
The Thing About Books

The Thing About Books

Why downsizing to a mere 650 boxes of them makes good sense

by Jethro K. Lieberman | Tuesday, September 06, 2016

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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