Rodrigo Nunes’s new book explores what Brazil’s far right can teach us about the fundamental motivations of the far right ...

Newspapers, illustrated journals, posters, and postcards turned the Dreyfus Affair into the first modern media event of the ...

In October 1899, Parisians could purchase a large color lithograph depicting a grotesque human-pig hybrid, complete with ...

For the past 50 years, Texas has been a GOP stronghold. Despite the good efforts of figures such as Beto O’Rourke, Barbara Jordan, and Ann Richards, the state has remained firmly in the grip of big ...

In a piece recently published in the New York Times under the title “Should We Cancel Aristotle?,” Agnes Collard, a philosopher at the University of Chicago, argues that “Aristotle did not merely ...

Mainstream economics tends only to consider that which is measurable and only to value that which produces a monetary cost or benefit. Unpaid labor becomes an afterthought, something easy to dismiss ...

When the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the delegates had created. His reply—“A republic, if you can keep it”—was no mere quip from an ...

Associate Professor of Urban Studies at The New School for Public Engagement ...

In a 1927 essay, acclaimed Austrian philosopher Robert Musil famously declared, “The remarkable thing about monuments is that one does not notice them. There is nothing in this world as invisible as a ...

In 1944, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) mandated that all travelers arriving in regions where yellow fever was endemic should be inoculated against the disease.

C-SPAN’s Presidential Historians Survey has become one of the most widely cited efforts to evaluate presidential performance—shaping how figures such as Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush ...

At the age of 26, I got my first tattoo. It’s a quote from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: the beautiful purple line puisque c’est ma rose, styled in my partner’s handwriting. Neither ...