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27/09/2022 - 14:05

These sketchy biographical details are almost all that we know of the life of the philosopher Epictetus, born around AD55. While some of... →

20/09/2022 - 17:17

Her first order of business was to help him regain weight and health, but he had no interest in food after being deprived of it for so long... →

14/09/2022 - 12:47

More than 2,000 years ago, in a temple in the city of Borsippa in ancient Mesopotamia, in what is now modern-day Iraq, a student was... →

07/09/2022 - 11:39

Wham, like the protests he’s become known for, is quiet and animated by a kind of contained mischief. Born and raised in Singapore, he has... →

27/08/2022 - 14:17

Such a belief, sometimes driven by antisemitism and sometimes by a general feeling of literary displacement and career frustration, was... →

20/08/2022 - 13:31

Nudges aim to influence people to make better decisions. For example, authorities may set a “better” choice, such as donating... →

10/08/2022 - 13:05

Dangling from each silhouetted disc, the sailor insisted, were German soldiers dressed, not in Nazi uniforms, but skirts and blouses. Each... →

31/07/2022 - 15:02

When half a million people completed an online questionnaire in 2018 the participants who were in their 20s and 30s said on... →

23/07/2022 - 13:43

Much of the news media addressed the Jersey City slaughter from a blame-the-victims angle. Dara Horn, in her new book, People Love... →

14/07/2022 - 14:39

Reader: I could not put it down. I still chose to read it slowly, to savor it, take it all in. I must have underlined at least a quarter of... →

09/07/2022 - 13:48

At their destination – a recently planted forest – the people sat or crouched on a slope dotted with spruce trees. Each tree was still... →

03/07/2022 - 17:37

The privilege of issuing money is synonymous with economic power. So it should come as little surprise that history is replete with... →

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