With the great powers facing off and a global authoritarian slide, we are entering a new era of brazen propaganda. But for ...

My new year began not with resolutions, but with tentacled monsters menacing 1980s children and their trusted adults. At the ...

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA-winning filmmaker. He is professor of public history at the University of Manchester. His most recent television series ...

In 1786, Sir William Jones, a British philologist and judge, made the remarkable discovery that the ancient Indian language Sanskrit resembled Latin and Greek, “bearing to both of them a stronger ...

Jacinda Ardern was the 40th prime minister of New Zealand, but the first to become an internationally recognised figure – certainly, Keith Holyoake and Robert Muldoon never appeared on the cover of ...

“Let us compare our consciousness to a sheet of water of some depth. Then the distinctly conscious ideas are merely the surface; on the other hand, the mass of the water is the indistinct, the ...

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Carrie Jenkins is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia, and the author of “Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning”. Carla Nappi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of ...