Invisible Servants, Spirit Deities Racing Through the Darkness: What Are Shikigami?In the dark of night in Heian-kyo, someone ...

The upcoming State of the Nation Address by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, scheduled for October 2026, has left the expert ...

Lecture Notes: "Life of the Aristocracy"Let's take a little break from the stiff topics of power struggles and political ...

Once the preserve of the aristocracy, rabbits became commonplace by the end of the Middle Ages as the world was turned upside ...

Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, revived in a new adaptation by Conor McPherson, explores themes of tradition and finance as ...

Towering hairdos and theatrical portraits fill an exhibition that celebrates queer creativity while remembering the ...

Gucci designer Demna on Friday unveiled what he described as his first complete personal vision for the ​brand, presenting pagoda-shouldered tailoring and cropped, puff-shaped outerwear, as ‌the ...

Born Emma Clare McQuiston, this socialite and fashion model is best known these days as Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath. Though she received her aristocratic title by marrying Ceawlin Thynn the 8th ...

When the Bolsheviks consolidated power after the 1917 Revolution, they adopted a term that summed up the fate of Russia’s old elite: “Former people.” It referred to aristocrats, senior officials and ...

In his seminal work 'Democracy in America,' Alexis de Tocqueville praised what he called the 'equality of conditions': namely, that because the United States lacked a rigid, inherited aristocracy, it ...

The US likes to think of itself as a young country, the product of a revolution against throne, altar and aristocracy that is based on the promise of the future (the pursuit of happiness) rather than ...

Every society has an aristocracy, even those that deny or disparage the very idea, such as our own. The word derives from a Greek term roughly meaning "rule of the best" which, it goes without saying, ...