This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
As much as you may enjoy a night in with a book, you might not look so eagerly f...
In 2017, historian Timothy Snyder wrote the concise book On Tyranny: Twenty Less...
It’s difficult to imagine that there was ever a time without the word “Kafkaesqu...
Do you like old timey music? Splendid. You can’t get more old timey than Hurrian...
Contrary to somewhat popular belief, Chinese characters aren’t just little pictu...
Most of us now accept the idea that all of Earth’s continents were once part of ...
When most Americans think of the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs, they think of economic di...
Images via Wikimedia Commons In the mid-20th century, the two big dogs in the Am...
The Lord said to Noah, there’s going to be a floody, floody; then to get those c...
In an old Zen story, two monks argue over whether a flag is waving or whether it...
The Austrian military engineer Conrad Haas was a man ahead of his time — indeed,...
Writing in his 1995 diary about his seminal ambient album Music for Airports, En...
The early trailer for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho above describes the film as “the...
From WIRED comes this: NYU professor and “authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghia...
Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece of grotesquerie, The Garden of Earthly Delights, ...
Of all the cinematic trailblazers to emerge during the early years of the Soviet...