They were condemned to death after a trial many called unjust. By James Jeffrey Houston marked an...
Many of the most commonly used election terms have a long linguistic history, stretching from ancient Rome...
Jokes can be deadly serious, and even today’s clown princes have a point to make. But where...
When the Beetle was first introduced, Americans had never seen anything like it. Among art car enthusiasts,...
The field of neuroaesthetics uses neuroscience to understand how art affects our brains, both when we’re making...
As the British Empire became an unaffordable burden, planning for India’s independence quickly ran into trouble. Introduction...
The partition of India led to more than a million deaths. A scholar argues how British royal,...
What happens in El Norte doesn’t stay in El Norte. By Rebecca Gordon It’s hard to believe...
W.T. Stead’s 1885 account of the process by which wealthy Londoners procured teenagers for sex became a...
The first Africans in the colonies came from Angola 400 years ago and were initially captured by...
Republicans favor of giving the president more power has dropped from 70% to 51% in the last...
For many voters, wearing political paraphernalia is their personal connection to a candidate. On April 30, 1789,...
“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”...
The changes the 20th century brought to American politics continue to hold true in the 21st century....
American presidential races have become drawn-out, years-long affairs. It wasn’t always this way. Introduction Four hundred and...
New analyses of the rings reveal how and when they were made, from what and whether they’ll...
We’re not exactly sure what the universe was up to in the first few nano-moments into the...
Are we heading towards a “dark age” of religious fundamentalism? I’d like to respond to an article for...
An evolutionary biologist makes the case that there’s no reconciling science and religion. In the search for...
Lodestones are dull, lumpy, and slate-gray, but their “magnetic intelligence” made them fabulously expensive. Magnets have souls....
Contemporary physics aligns smoothly with the doctrine of the eternal return suggested by Nietzsche. By Duane Altheide...
This genre became one of the most important artistic contributions of Renaissance Venice. Farewell, peoples and cities....
There was a split between the pure ideal and base reality, between sacred and profane love. In...
Our core values may be encouraging us to reject organized religion. Religious participation is declining among Americans...
Rufus is primarily known today as the teacher of Epictetus, the slave who became a famous Stoic...
Epicureanism competed with Stoicism to dominate Greek and Roman culture. By Temma Ehrenfeld ‘The pursuit of Happiness’...
In the 19th and early-20th centuries, Japan, among the major countries of Asia, escaped colonial or neo-colonial...
The Sino-Japanese War provided something very new—a modern and highly mechanized war against a foreign foe. Prints...
Buddhism was first introduced to Japan from mainland Asia in the 6th century CE, and monasteries were...
Buddhism in Japan has been practiced since its official introduction by monks in 552 CE. By Mark...