Advertising is a major force behind the Internet, promising free content while promoting the ethos of choice. But the possibility of choice has literally put a price on intimacy…
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Read MoreTexts of Greek and Roman literature do not usually come down to us in lavishly illustrated editions dating back to what we term classical antiquity…
Read MoreThe most remarkable feature of the mould-breaking expansion of higher education that took place across the world in the 1960s was the foundation of some 200 entirely new universities…
Read MoreThe extensive development of popular television is one of the most distinctive cultural achievements of the post-Reform era…
Read MoreAt the sites chosen for the groundnut scheme, tractors and bulldozers from military surplus stores in Egypt proved unable to tackle the hard ground and tough vegetation, so the planners turned to a novel solution: repurposing surplus Sherman M4A2 tanks…
Read MoreGermany is shortly to hold its first ever federal election in which the sitting chancellor is not running…
Read MorePolitical indoctrination became an important strategy alongside moral instruction…
Read MoreRobert Gates argued in his memoir that Biden had been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades…
Read MoreWas the Glorious Revolution even a revolution? Should it be understood as its own event or merely the final chapter in the seventeenth-century English conflict with the Stuarts?
Read MoreA parenthetical phrase (like this one) may refer to things outside of it, parts of the sentence it inhabits (say)…
Read MoreJust a few steps away, my mind was buzzing like a bee: What the hell are you doing? You’re only fifty! People your age are starting new chapters in their lives, and you’re planning your death?
Read MoreSpectacle Island would not look the way it does today if it were not for Boston…
Read MoreThe same radicalizing dynamic, which was predicated on a complete break with the past, also made it very difficult, and perhaps even impossible, to leave certain pasts behind…
Read MoreWhy was the family heir sent abroad, often when still a teenager, at a time when travel was indisputably and widely acknowledged to be dangerous?
Read MoreHumble dwellings like the Camargue huts invite us to tell a different kind of story about human-environment relationships, one less focused on human beings’ mastery of nature…
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