Voices in Time: The KKK Makes Its Case in Mass Media

The Second Coming of the KKK shows an early twentieth-century attempt to go mainstream.

The History of the Shariʿa

How Islam’s divine law emerged, evolved, and spread—then reached a crisis point.

Aussie Frontline Workers

Expose horrific conditions amid Omicron outbreak.

The Sinking

Of the West.

Canada’s Competition Problem

Too many people in this country would rather the government keep everyone at a lower level.

 

Did Moa Once Browse

In huge kōwhai forests in Central Otago?

Eat Cheese. Mostly Fresh. Not Too Much.

 Cheesemaking tips from the ancients.

The Sovereign Urban Intellectual

How Diogenes Laertius’ lives of the eminent philosophers influenced Renaissance Italy.

‘The BBC Is Systemically Woke’

Broadcaster Nigel Rees on how woke activists shape the BBC’s output.

Ontario Homeowner Allowed To Keep Flying Anti-Trudeau Flag

After town backs down.

How to Combat Anti-Israeli Hate

On college campuses.

How Universities Became Sheep Factories

Our great institutions are now instruments of political indoctrination.

The Scientific Reason It's So Hard to Make Friends as an Adult

And what to do about it.

Defining Privacy—and Then Getting Rid of It

The beginnings of the end of private life in the late nineteenth century.

Living Underwater with Jacques Cousteau

The author of Beyond the Map takes us to Starfish House.

As Hospitals Reel

California tells coronavirus-positive medical workers to stay on the job.

Trophy Hunters Are On Their Last Legs

The practice of shooting exotic animals for sport must end.

Beware

China is gobbling up American farmland.

Renowned Doctor Who Branded His Initials On Patients’ Livers

Has his medical license revoked.

Trudeau’s Environment Minister

Wants to phase out fossil fuels in two years.

The Forgotten Medieval Habit

Of ‘two sleeps.’

Restless Violet Shadows

The official color of the impressionists.

The Laws of the Jungle

Rudyard Kipling populated Mowgli’s world with political opinions and metaphorical monkeys.

It's Time Hospital CEOs

Faced some public scrutiny.

After Deadly Bronx Fire, Space Heaters Deemed ‘Symbols of Inequity’

New York City officials had flagged busted fire doors before Bronx tower inferno.

The Mind Virus Killing Academia

Universities are just a site for elite status-jousting.

Quebec

Embraces two-tier healthcare.

The Coming War With…Um…Canada?

A columnist from Up North warns that soon Canada might have to intervene in America.

New York Academic Slams Trudeau

For dehumanizing the unvaccinated.

Prophet In Purgatory

EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak is fighting accusations that his pandemic prevention work helped spark COVID-19.

An Honest Traveler

In praise of Thomas Manning, a nineteenth-century Englishman in Tibet.

The Problem with Questions

How the questions asked betray the anxieties of the times.

Woman Saves Bees

By rescuing hives from old buildings with her bare hands.

As Americans Deal With Empty Shelves

The hashtag ‘BareShelvesBiden’ has taken off on Twitter, with Americans nationwide documenting an alarming number of empty shelves in their local grocery stores.

British Scientists Discover Skeleton

Of 180-million-year-old sea dragon.

The City Is A Palimpsest

 Mythological home of Helen, war-making polis of Leonidas and now a modest municipality.

The Meaning of Anger

Is anger like energy, forever changing form but never dissipating, or part of our repertoire of desires, the cry of a need unmet?

Why The First Buddhas In Art

Wore finely folded Greek tunics.

The Souvenirs of Westward Expansion

The tale of field biologists who followed business west, collecting specimens along the way.

Papal Indulgences

The story of the Avignon papacy and an acclaimed Rhône wine.

A Wretched Situation Made Plain on Paper

How an engraving of a slave ship helped the abolition movement.

Seeing for Himself

The amazing life of the doctor called to perform at the Hamilton-Burr duel.

The Moment a Baby Gorilla Born Prematurely

Is reunited with its family.

Californians Leaving for Texas

So rapidly, U-Haul ran out of trucks.

America Is Controlled By Secrecy

Threat inflation has become a tool of political repression.

The Failed Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt

The postwar Soviet threat could have been lessened.

Is Gauguin Redeemable?

No. Would he have wanted to be redeemed? Absolutely not.

Canadian Tourists Get A Taste Of Communism

During their vacation in apartheid Cuba.

China’s Worldwide Expansion Plan

Stops in Somaliland.

Britain Faces Surgeon Shortage

As cancelled operations leave graduates under-qualified.