Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion,” the sober heroine, Anne Elliot, pays a visit to ...

Democrats are confused about why they lost in November. Was it because they embraced progressive cultural issues or didn’t ...

Folk tales offer a kind of fabular impersonality, where an author’s voice is lost in a wider fiction machine or culture of storytelling. That form of multi-voiced impersonality played a big part in ...

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Environmental stress in evolution can be reframed as a powerful engine of innovation, not simply a barrier to survival.

Europeans began sending ships to distant Asian ports for things like spices, tea, silk, cotton, diamonds, pearls and ivory.

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As the Apostle Paul writes to the Christian community of Colossae, the most coherent thing he seems to be able to say when explaining the intricacies of the relationship between ...

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the main source of federal funding for libraries and museums across the country. President Trump issued an executive order last week saying he aims to close the agency.

In the final episode of Political Poems, Mark and Seamus discuss ‘Little Gidding’, the fourth poem of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Emerging out of Eliot’s experiences of the Blitz, ‘Little Gidding’ ...