The past is now. You and I come after the fact.

After the Fact, my free newsletter, offers a critical reflection on one current issue each month from the perspective of history and theory. The first issue (coming March 2026) discusses what the recent growth or metastasis, depending on your perspective, of Artificial Intelligence means for the future of teaching, human relations, and critical thinking.

The newsletter’s title, After the Fact, speaks to the two types of work historians do — to the job of chasing down sometimes complex and elusive facts and to the job of explaining how past facts, or what we call history, inform the present. The point is that:

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