The United States tends to glorify its Founders and try to maintain a strange temporal connection to...
Month: June 2020
We can use the Constitution to create a better country. But constitutional fundamentalism will create a worse...
Publius Cornelius Tacitus (l. c. 56 – c. 118 CE) was a Roman historian, active throughout the reign of...
It was founded c.814 BCE by the legendary Phoenician queen Dido and increased in size after an...
Independent recordings of police officers are critical for ensuring police accountability. By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz...
The nation’s Founders offered a couple clues on how to deal with guys with law enforcement and...
Can art be a credible space in which to foreground a potentially revolutionary coalition? Introduction Whilst in...
Examining ‘suspicious reading’ – allied reading – or reading in solidarity. By Stephen SquibbDoctoral Candidate in EnglishHarvard...
Even toward the end of her life, the writer revealed a youthful zest for life and art....
The brilliant, eclectic thinker who wrote the classic dystopian novel Brave New World. At six feet four and...
The family one was born into in Byzantium greatly determined one’s social status and profession in adult...
Honor Ceres, the goddess of wheat, with this ancient recipe. Introduction Although Ceres (Greek Demeter) was in...
After winning the Civil War and living in the White House, he decided to see the world....
Some of the people he has influenced don’t even realize it. When I was finishing a biography...
Deaths were justified by prevailing ideologies both in Westminster and among the British public. Chief Mato-tope of...
Van Helmont was an heir of Paracelsus’s thought and movement who went to lengths in later years...
Many militia members have championed the importance of individual rights while backing a president who threatens those...
Achilles was too proud and bad-tempered for his own good, and his reckless rage would cost both...
Exploring how manuscripts reveal the evolution of the tale of Troy in ancient Greek and Latin traditions....
The absolute best Time in sports is the great upsets that once in a while happen in...
Surveillance technology deployed to combat COVID-19 can quickly be used against civil freedoms. In the last few...
By Von Diaz and Emma Bowman Around Memorial Day of 2000, Emily Aho took her then 75-year-old...
The Pope and the president both opted to look away from the greatest humanitarian crisis of our...
The timing of the assassination made Easter Sunday 1865 a particularly important—and confusing—occasion. Shot on Good Friday...
These men fled to a variety of destinations, including modern-day Canada, the Caribbean, and France. I’m investigating...
The pulverizing defeat at Hattin had left most of the Crusader strongholds without enough soldiers to defend...
The rebellious Arabian tribes declared that their pact with Muhammad was personal and that they felt no...
Police interaction with black people can be much more insidious than these headline-grabbing moments we’re seeing today....
It would take several decades of legal action and years of nonviolent direct action to spark real...
It was not until 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education and later 1964 with the Civil...