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The Radical Ideas of Plato’s Republic: An In-Depth Introduction

about 14 hours ago

We no longer live in a time when college freshmen get shocked...

Why Incompetent People Think They’re Amazing: An Animated Lesson from David Dunning (of the Famous “Dunning-Kruger Effect”)

about 21 hours ago

The business world has long had special jargon for the Kafkaesque incompetence...

How the Silk Road Actually Worked (and What Could Go Terribly Wrong On It)

2 days ago

You don’t have to spend a long time reading up on the...

How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in America

2 days ago

Image by Dick DeMarsico, via Wikimedia Commons The influence of Georg Wilhelm...

Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in 25,000-Year-Old Teeth

5 days ago

Image by Fakhri “Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in...

“Evil Mickey Mouse” Invades Japan in a 1934 Japanese Anime Propaganda Film

5 days ago

Before the Japanese fell completely, one hundred percent in love with anything...

Route 66 Turns 100 This Year: Take a Tour of America’s Most Famous Highway

6 days ago

This past summer, the United States of America celebrated 250 years of...

Download Hundreds of Issues of Jugend, Germany’s Pioneering Art Nouveau Magazine (1896–1940)

6 days ago

It’s an ungainly word for English speakers, which is maybe why we...

The Ancient Greek Water Clock That Kept the Most Accurate Time for 1,800 Years

7 days ago

Today, we’re surrounded by technologies we could justifiably describe as time thieves....

Historian Timothy Snyder Teaches a Free Course on Hitler, Stalin & How “It” Can Happen Here

7 days ago

When the historian Timothy Snyder left Yale for the University of Toronto...

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Secret Career as a Japanese Art Dealer & How It Shaped His Architecture

8 days ago

Frank Lloyd Wright was often strapped for cash. In that respect, he...

How the Japanese Practice of “Forest Bathing”—Or Just Hanging Out in the Woods—Can Lower Stress Levels and Fight Disease

8 days ago

When the U.S. media began reporting on the phenomenon of “forest bathing”...