Our president recently threatened several members of Congress with hanging. How did we respond? After a brief media kerfuffle ...

A new exhibition freshly contextualizes many artworks in the light of his personal story, while conservators conducted ...

Every state across the world has faced multi-dimensional crises throughout their complex historical trajectories. Many nations have adopted the ideas of various philosophers; according to some ...

Their books are long and boring and they don’t talk like normal people. That’s why I have been a longtime fan of David ...

How does walking help us learn? There are many authors who encourage us to put on our shoes and take to the forest paths.

It’s tough to escape the magnetic pull of The Armoury. Founded by the ever-dapper Mark Cho and Alan See in 2010, the Hong ...

History often paints with a broad brush, dividing people into villains and heroes without much nuance. Yet the real story is ...

My overriding belief,” he has said, “is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.” And on another occasion, he firmly stated ...

An aphorism differs from an axiom, which is a self-evident truth (“All men are created equal”), and from platitude, which is ...

It’s on the outskirts of Les Baux, a traditional “perched village” of Provence, sitting at an altitude of 240m on a craggy ...

At the age of 20 or 21, Rousseau returned to Warens in Chambéry, and their relationship turned sexual. Although Warens was ...

Ever quoted a famous line, only to find out the person never actually said it? It turns out that a lot of well-known quotes ...