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Lessons From the Qur'an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

Lessons From the Qur'an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

Alireza Doostdar on Blessing, Punishment, and Witnessing War

By Alireza Doostdar | March 13, 2020

Race and Spectacle in the Circuses of Gilded Age America

Race and Spectacle in the Circuses of Gilded Age America

Jacob Dorman on Circus Orientalism and Racial Othering

By Jacob Dorman | March 12, 2020

Trump Threatened Iranian Cultural Sites. This Is What They Look Like.

Trump Threatened Iranian Cultural Sites. This Is What They Look Like.

Terence Ward on Iran's Stunning UNESCO Heritage Locations

By Terence Ward | March 12, 2020

Yan Lianke: What Happens After Coronavirus?

Yan Lianke: What Happens After Coronavirus?

On Community Memory and Repeating Our Own Mistakes

By Yan Lianke | March 11, 2020

The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake

The Fraught and Risky Business of Spotting a Historical Fake

Nathan Rabb on What He Learned From His Father's Bookshelf

By Nathan Rabb | March 11, 2020

How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?

How, Exactly, Do Our Brains Construct Reality?

Will Storr on the Neuroscience Behind the World We See

By Will Storr | March 11, 2020

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Inside the Secret Hospitals of the Syrian Civil War

Inside the Secret Hospitals of the Syrian Civil War

David Nott on Traveling to Aleppo to Save Lives

By David Nott | March 6, 2020

The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

Robin D.G. Kelley on the Predecessors to Antifa

By Robin D.G. Kelley | March 6, 2020

What's the Point of Plants that Make Us Feel High?

What's the Point of Plants that Make Us Feel High?

Philosophers and Scientists (and Stoners) Have
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By David Schneider | March 5, 2020

Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

On Rose Pastor and the Activists of the University Settlement Society

By Adam Hochschild | March 5, 2020

Charles Dickens really, really hated his fanboy Hans Christian Andersen.

Charles Dickens really, really hated his fanboy Hans Christian Andersen.

By Olivia Rutigliano | March 4, 2020

How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

Tracking Adversaries, Hiding Evidence, and Other No
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By Alana Mohamed | March 4, 2020

Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

Dylan Byron on the Self-Discovery of Early Literary Love

By Dylan Byron | March 3, 2020

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