It is a courageous soul who would take on the challenge of writing a Life (even a partial Life) of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The man lived a long time for his era, from 1646 to 1716. That is seventy ...

On Monday evening, lots of us celebrated the opening of the refurbished “Gallery 3” in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge: not just a bit of a party, but the galleries were open to the public late ...

The inauguration of Donald Trump looks different if you are very close to it, as I currently am (living a stone’s throw from the Capitol). Sure, some things don’t change. The media on both sides of ...