Category: History
Why Did Our Ancestors Make Startling Art in Dark, Firelit Caves?
‘Why do you think they drew these stags here?’ Eduardo Palacio-Pérez, the conservator of the…
Amir Timur and the Battle of Stalingrad
Habib Khan from Quetta: Amir Timur (aka Tamerlane) allegedly learned perseverance from an ant. According…
Women in the Ancient World
Literary Review May 2024 Issue: Women are everywhere in classical literature and mythology, but the…
The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans
Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: On this episode, Razib talks about the April 2024 preprint…
Yuval Noah Harari: From Gaza to Iran, the Netanyahu Govt Is Endangering Israel’s Survival
Yuval Noah Harari in Haaretz: In the coming days Israel will have to make historic…
The Butterfly’s Wings: FDR, Truman, and Henry Wallace
If you don’t like people, you hadn’t ought to be in politics at all, and…
Lord Byron Was Hard to Pin Down. That’s What Made Him Great.
Benjamin Markovits at the New York Times: This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord…
The Enduring Pain of Postcolonial Trauma
Farah Abdessamad at Aeon: In 1952, the 27-year-old Frantz Fanon had just published his first…
Byzantine Regained
Jerry Saltz at Vulture: In the year 286, Emperor Diocletian began to formalize a division…
“A Passage to India” on Its 100th Birthday
THIS YEAR marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of E. M. Forster’s A Passage to…
What Animals Were Really on Noah’s Ark?
By Erin Blakemore at National Geographic: In the beginning, there were two—animals. The Bible only…
Western Christianity Triumphed Not By Destiny But Accident
In the beginning there were many different sons of God John Gray at The New…