How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world ...

A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap ...

We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US ...

Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest ...

All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history ...

is the Anne and George L Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee ...

Both Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his friend Adam Smith agreed that modern humans were vain creatures, ceaselessly adjusting and masking themselves to gain the favour of others. However, as this short ...

is a sociologist living in South Bend, Indiana. She is the co-author of Religious Parenting: Transmitting Faith and Values in Contemporary America (2020).

In the animated documentary The Waiting, Karen Lips, professor of biology at University of Maryland, College Park, chronicles a mysterious mass disappearance she encountered across two field studies ...

The short documentary series ‘American Muslims: A History Revealed’ features six films that explore the often overlooked ways in which of Muslims and Islam have helped to shape the United States. In ...