Graham Burnett, a young historian of science, served as the foreman of a jury examining an admitted killing in Manhattan's gay demi-monde.

ECONOMIST: American juries

Although one of the other 11 members of the jury was, improbably, also a historian of science, two and possibly a third showed the mental acuity of fireplugs.

ECONOMIST: American juries

As historian of science Stanley Jaki spent his life documenting, the pagan world view was one of endless cycles, of oscillations, of rise and fall, golden ages of glory, bronze ages of decline, iron and stone ages of despair, with no genuine permanent progress.

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