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What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools"--the schools of grammar and rhetoric--in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of...

The unforgettable memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who dared to take on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine MaxwellThe world knows Virginia Roberts Giuffre as Jeffrey Epstein and...

This full-scale sequential reading of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War will be invaluable to the specialist and also to those in search of an introduction and companion to the Histories...

Qu'est-ce que le fascisme? En réponse à cette question, maints historiens, sociologues ou politiques se sont employés à identifier une essence et à donner une définition abstraite du phénomène...

The Joy of Philosophy is a return to some of the perennial questions of philosophy--questions about the meaning of life; about death and tragedy; about the respective roles of rationality and passion...

Mathematics and logic present crucial cases in deciding whether the world is of our making or whether some form of realism is true. Edmund Husserl, who was initially a mathematician, discusses this...

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Winner of the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, spells out the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality—that...

Does the past have useful economics? / Donald N. McCloskey -- An economic interpretation of the American Revolution / Marc Egnal and Joseph A. Ernst -- The market and Massachusetts farmers, 1750-1855...

Robert O. Paxton, docente di Storia alla Columbia University di New York, analizza la storia del fascismo, vera novità del ventesimo secolo per le atroci sofferenze che ha causato, dal punto di vista...

"An unrepeatable feat, a tour de force." --The Washington Post Book World In Tabloid Dreams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler dazzles with his mastery of the short story and his...

"They're ordinary people. They live in villages and towns and cities, in southeastern Pennsylvania. They work farms, go to school, run businesses. But since the threatening events that began March...

American readers have been fascinated, since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is...

The long-awaited final volume of the Cicero Trilogy, from a beloved bestselling author “incapable of writing an unenjoyable book” (The Wall Street Journal). At the age of forty-eight, Cicero—the...

The French film director Robert Bresson was one of the great artists of the twentieth century and among the most radical, original, and radiant stylists of any time. He worked with nonprofessional...

How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural AmericansWhat is fueling rural America’s outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald...

A real historical figure, the British surgeon Dr. William Palmer was accused in 1856 of murdering fourteen people by means of poison. The Dr. Kevorkian trial of the 19th century, with a bit of O.J...