One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing.

Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.

Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.

The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.