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People sitting on a hill overlooking a harbor

How We Became Weekly

The week is the most artificial and recent of our time counts yet it’s impossible to imagine our shared lives without it.

by David Hinkin via Aeon on November 30, 2021

Painting of the Parthenon by Frederic Edwin Church

A Story of Use and Abuse

Athenian democracy in the political imagination.

by Arlene W. Saxonhouse via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 28, 2021

The skeleton of a whale

Out to Sea

Since the 1970s, the U.S. and Russia have used marine mammals to further their military objectives, sparking protest from animal rights activists.

by Susanna Space via Guernica on July 15, 2021

1886 British Empire Map

Fascism and Analogies — British and American, Past and Present

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.

by Priya Satia via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 16, 2021

An illustration of deviled eggs.

The Secrets of Deviled Eggs

A food writer cracks into the power of food memories and what deviled eggs might tell us about who we are and who we might become.

by Emily Strasser via The Bitter Southerner on November 12, 2020

Rendering Judgment on America

A new book systematically defends the American Founding against those who believe it was destined to end in nihilism.

by Samuel Gregg via Public Discourse on July 1, 2020

A building that appears distorted

Staring at Hell

The artists of our time, with their ruin-porn coffee-table books, offer the world a glossy, anesthetized image of abandoned infrastructure from Chernobyl to Detroit.

by Kate Wagner via The Baffler on January 6, 2020

The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table

From poisoned monks and nuclear bombs to the “transfermium wars,” mapping the atomic world hasn’t been easy.

by Neima Jahromi via The New Yorker on December 27, 2019

Pope Gregory with his hand on the globe.

On New Year’s, Our Calendar’s Crazy History, and the Switch That Changed Washington’s Birthday

In 1752, the Brits and Americans lopped 11 days off the calendar in one fell swoop.

by Steve Hendrix via Washington Post on December 31, 2017

The Invention of Monogamy

For most of its history, monogamy was a rule only applied to married women.

by Sarah Mirk, Isabella Rotman via The Nib on October 20, 2017

On Monuments and Public Lands

Any critical take on public monuments today must confront the reality that public lands are themselves colonized lands.

by Whitney Martinko via Hindsights on September 15, 2017

John Brown

Three Interviews With Old John Brown

Atlantic writer William Phillips conducted three interviews with Brown before Brown's fateful raid on Harper's Ferry.

by William A. Phillips via The Atlantic on November 30, 1879

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