Here’s a story about my collaboration with a student on an essay about “China’s Demographic Future” published in 2024 by Scientific American

It starts in India in 1965, I was in the Peace Corps, continues in Bali, and finishes up in Paris. The main character is a French woman.

Two of my distant French cousins died and I ended up being the heir of one estate and settling the other in the absence of a will...

There is very little sense of community in my new residence. Does it matter? Is it related to the creation of the internet?

No new posts for more than two months because of my crazy life of travel and writing. I’m working on some topics of above-average interest.

Here is a favorite story from my youth. I told it to a friend in a conversation last week and he urged me to write it up and post it.

During my one-week visit to Istanbul, I met two Turkish history professors who are experts on the Ottoman Empire. I have hard evidence now.

The father of my paternal grandfather, Alexis SORLIN-D’ORIGNY, lived in Constantinople and died there in 1884. But what was he doing there?