The Wanli Emperor’s long withdrawal from governance represents one of the most consequential failures of leadership in...
This moment will be remembered less for the policy dispute that sparked it than for what it...
The brief life of the Articles of Confederation occupies a paradoxical place in American history, at once...
The shutdown has exposed the extent to which cruelty and spectacle have replaced responsibility as the engines...
GeekyAnts has announced the successful delivery of yet another project, Supply Dome, a next-generation supply chain management...
Justinian II’s reign stands as one of the most paradoxical episodes in Byzantine history, a period of...
Stone cannot conceal truth forever. Time has a way of turning monuments into mirrors, reflecting the morality...
Viewed within its historical moment, The Great Gatsby reveals how the dream of equality and opportunity had...
America is borne back ceaselessly not to the past, but to the same unlearned lesson: that wealth...
The early Industrial Revolution inaugurated more than an age of machines; it redefined the relationship between humanity...
Corporations are now a leading disease risk factor. By Liza GrossReporter, CaliforniaInside Climate News There’s been a marked...
The environmental consequences of the Texas oil boom reveal how technological achievement and ecological degradation advanced side...
The actions he and his secretary of the interior have taken will not lower, and could even...
This is actually the first book devoted to the subject of werewolves in the ancient world. By...
Archaeological material can feed into discussions of sacrifice and pre-Christian myth and religion. Introduction Most often, and...
The iconic image of a witch on a broomstick has apocryphal origins. By Dr. Michael D. BaileyProfessor...
“Damnation seize my soul.” By Eli WizevichHistory CorrespondentSmithsonian Magazine Something unthinkable happened during the summer of 1718....
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The propaganda worked because it spoke to universal anxieties, the terror of disorder, the fragility of civic...
The post-truth crisis is ultimately a test of civic character. A republic cannot survive if its citizens...
The Waldensian story remains a mirror for every age in which conviction eclipses truth. When belief becomes...
The challenge posed by MAGA is not only to logic but to conscience. If the movement has...
The medieval economy, often portrayed as rigid and hierarchical, in fact operated through a mosaic of temporary,...
The road that stretches before the gig economy is not merely economic; it is moral and political....
The middle class saw itself as both the moral guardian and the practical engine of progress, defining...
The middle class is not a luxury of prosperity; it is the architecture of democracy. When that...
The end of witch hunts did not bring an end to the human impulses that sustained them....
Americans must relearn the discipline of context. That means demanding data alongside stories, patterns alongside pathos. It...
By transferring moral and political legitimacy from revelation to reason, the Enlightenment recast the relationship between the...
In the end, the way forward is neither nostalgia for the Enlightenment nor surrender to irrationality. It...