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What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science?

What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science?

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner Consider the Many Forms Inquiry Can Take, In Our World and Others

By Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner | November 19, 2025

The Enduring Global Legacy of the French Revolution

The Enduring Global Legacy of the French Revolution

Donald Sassoon Discusses How Years of Political Turmoil Resulted in the Advent of the Modern Era

By Donald Sassoon | November 19, 2025

Where Time and Space Collide: In Praise of Old Maps

Where Time and Space Collide: In Praise of Old Maps

James Cheshire on the Valuable Work of Preserving and Unearthing the Past

By James Cheshire | November 19, 2025

Did You Know Mapmakers Used to Make Up Fake Towns in Order to Catch Plagiarists?

Did You Know Mapmakers Used to Make Up Fake Towns in Order to Catch Plagiarists?

Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman Consider the Techniques Cartographers Use to Prevent Counterfeiting

By Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman | November 18, 2025

How Philly Businessman Albert Barnes Changed the Life of “Unsellable” Expressionist Artist Chaim Soutine

How Philly Businessman Albert Barnes Changed the Life of “Unsellable” Expressionist Artist Chaim Soutine

Celeste Marcus on the Barnes‘ Massive Soutine Acquisition in the Early 1900s

By Celeste Marcus | November 18, 2025

What Set Off the Showdown at the O.K. Corral? An Anti-Gun Law

What Set Off the Showdown at the O.K. Corral? An Anti-Gun Law

Mark Lee Gardner on the Impact of 19th-Century Gun Control on Cowboy Culture

By Mark Lee Gardner | November 18, 2025

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Give a Nazi an Inch... And Other Important Lessons From Weimar, Germany

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Caught Between Empires: On the Fate of the Amur Tiger

By Jonathan C. Slaght | November 14, 2025

Celebration and Struggle: On the Life and Work of Alice Childress

Celebration and Struggle: On the Life and Work of Alice Childress

Eve Dunbar Considers the Creative, Professional and Manual Labor of Black Women in America

By Eve Dunbar | November 13, 2025

On the Early Days of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Rise to Power

On the Early Days of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Rise to Power

The Soviet Union General Secretary’s Anti-Alcohol Campaign, Initial Allies, and Rock-Star Beginnings

By Mikhail Zygar | November 12, 2025

Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

“What glowed at me with such potency that I would willingly immerse myself for all the months of writing slog?”

By Emma Darwin | November 12, 2025

What Does It Mean to be Human? (According to Philosopher Alexandre Kojève)

What Does It Mean to be Human? (According to Philosopher Alexandre Kojève)

Boris Groys on the Nothingness of Human Existence

By Boris Groys | November 11, 2025

The History of the Relentless, Decades-Long Siege on the People of Gaza

The History of the Relentless, Decades-Long Siege on the People of Gaza

“The average young Gazan measures his age by how many of those wars we survived.”

By Muhammad Shehada | November 10, 2025

How the Rise of Fascism Impacted the 1938 FIFA World Cup

How the Rise of Fascism Impacted the 1938 FIFA World Cup

Jonathan Wilson Explores the Political—and Personal—Upheaval at the Intersection of Politics and Sport

By Jonathan Wilson | November 7, 2025

Why the American Revolution Was a World War in All But Name

Why the American Revolution Was a World War in All But Name

Richard Bell Explores the Transnational Nature of America's Fight For Independence

By Richard Bell | November 7, 2025

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