Losing Reality: TV and Movies Today
January 29, 2024
David Thomson— For most of my life, I cherished the experience of being at the movies—in a theatre or a cinema, the Granada, the Regal or the Astoria in southwest… READ MORE
Category: Humanities
A Shining Star of Kingship: Emperor Ashoka in the 3rd Century BCE
January 9, 2024
Patrick Olivelle— Few kings or emperors—or even people in power today—have been sufficiently self-aware and self-reflective to express regret or remorse for anything they may have done. When the king… READ MORE
Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity
December 20, 2023
Michael S. Roth— Advocates for unfettered speech are often following the “free market” approach: just as more competition in the economic marketplace makes it more likely that goods and services… READ MORE
Did Leonard Bernstein’s Wife Know He Was Gay?
November 29, 2023
“Every one I love, I love passionately.” – Leonard Bernstein Nigel Simeone— Music was Bernstein’s greatest and most constant passion. But his love life was an essential part of his… READ MORE
Our Best Books of 2023
November 27, 2023
Explore our list of bestselling titles of the year, just in time for the holiday season! Learn more about our gift guide, which offers suggestions for every reader on your… READ MORE
In the Eye of the Serpent
November 17, 2023
Whitney Barlow Robles— The serpent who beguiled Eve. Medusa’s ossifying glance. The hypnotic command of Kaa in Kipling’s Jungle Book. Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, turned upside down by a basilisk…. READ MORE
#SpeakUp: The Importance of Dignity
November 13, 2023
Jean E. Thomson Black— First published in 2011, Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict by Donna Hicks has become a perennial bestseller, paving the way for the release of… READ MORE
Why the Crusades Matter
November 10, 2023
Christopher Tyerman— The crusades offer features to fascinate and disturb modern audiences. Surviving evidence–literary, archival, archaeological, visual and material–allows access in some detail to individual experiences as well as large… READ MORE
New Stories by the Russian Writer Ludmila Ulitskaya
November 9, 2023
Richard Pevear— Ludmila Ulitskaya is one of the major Russian writers of our time. She began writing rather late: her short fiction began to be published in 1990; her first… READ MORE
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Origins of Wicca
October 31, 2023
Owen Davies— As cheap printed magic books swirled around the world, in late 19th-century Britain a small group of middle-class men and women created a new secret, magic movement in… READ MORE
Writing a History of Ignorance