In part 4 of the Great Revolutions series, Dominic Alexander examines the events that led to the French Revolution Like the ...

Art, as a mirror of society, evolves dynamically over time . Movements, or ldquo;isms rdquo;, influence one another through reactions, innovations, and reinterpretations .

Partway through The Substance, a body horror film from French writer and director Coralie Fargeat, there’s a brightly lit, ...

The 15th Dakar Biennale, ‘The Wake,’ takes place in the Ancien Palais de Justice near the western-most point of the continent ...

The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we ...

The French Revolution was fueled by popular discontent with the monarchy's excesses, economic disparity, and Enlightenment ideals. On September 21, 1792, following the execution of Louis XVI, the ...

Catherine, who ruled Russia for 34 long years, made the country a powerful nation but her ‘benevolence’ was different ...

Irish economist David McWilliams deals with the history of money in his rollicking first book Money: A Story of Humanity, ...

Whenever someone says, “They wouldn’t make that movie today,” it begs the inevitable question, “Why?” Sometimes, the person ...

The week when the transition team of President-elect Donald Trump named a TV journalist as defence secretary and revealed ...

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

A pogrom is a premeditated, organized, violent riot with the aim of threatening, intimidating, and massacring Jews, made ...