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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...