The Engrossing Strangeness of the Ancient World, and More

Mad honey, ghost ships, flying snakes: Adrienne Mayor plumbs the engrossing strangeness of the ancient Greco-Roman world ... more »

Ibram X. Kendi is many things, but he’s no complex thinker. “He is not reflective or inquisitive, but dogmatic” ... more »

The native language of Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky is also the language of war criminals. But do…