Present-day attacks on the right to free assembly have a long history behind them. For centuries, the rulers of ancient Rome ...

James Baldwin shaped a generation of American writers, many of whom later dismissed his humanistic outlook as naive. Today he ...

In the 1960s, the Indonesian dictator Suharto was responsible for one of the twentieth century’s bloodiest political ...

In The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman, French writer Didier Eribon sees his mother’s passing as symbolic ...

Culture warriors and industry lobbyists have turned electric vehicles into a proxy battle for deeper anxieties about class, ...

Legislation on protected identities is supposed to foster good intercommunal relations. When it’s used to protect Zionism, it ...

Raised amid wage stagnation and soaring markets, Gen Z invests more than prior generations. Yet rising inequality means that, ...

Not everyone is excited about the resurgence of brutalism. But the rise of neobrutalist projects shows how the polarizing ...

Steven Rose, who died last month, was a major figure in the field of neuroscience and a brilliant scientific popularizer.

John Parrington is an associate professor in molecular and cellular pharmacology and a tutorial fellow in medicine at the ...

Fulgencio Batista’s Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities had a blood-spattered record of torture and political ...

Thailand and Cambodia shocked observers by going to war last month. The destructive border conflict doesn’t stem from an ...