A new exhibition explores Renaissance views on what is attractive and what is hideous, and how one can’t exist without the ...
He demanded the release of unspecified “blocked assets” belonging to Iran “before negotiations begin.” Over the last three ...
Welfare schemes, particularly women-specific ones, have become very popular with parties in power in poll-bound states. One ...
The 1970s had a sound, a look, and apparently a very specific set of baby names. Stacker used Social Security Administration ...
Amir Temur occupies a place in world history not only as a great commander and statesman who built a powerful and prosperous state. The great ruler turned his capital, Samarkand, into one of the ...
Adam Houghton uses Timeform ratings to rank the five top-rated juveniles in Britain and Ireland, including Adonius and Maria ...
One fact is this: here in San Diego, we bathe and breathe in the land of the blonde. (Incidentally, the word itself, “blond,” ...
The Milindapañha recounts the Socratic-like dialogue of an Indo-Greek king, Menander, and his conversion. Could it be true?
We spend eighteen years teaching children to earn gold stars and good grades, then wonder why they spend the next thirty ...
In recent times, two very different figures, Gore Vidal and Pat Buchanan, made similar points: That the American Republic was ...
Fascism is a cult of power. It works by intoxicating half the population and filling the other half with dread ...
The tale of Himyar reminds us of the ongoing Jewish presence in the Middle East, its important history, but also of the ...