The EU was built for another age—here's how it must adapt to survive
To European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, Europe is like a Volkswagen Beetle—an iconic car produced by a ...
70 Huge Facts About the ‘Titanic’
The 'Titanic' sinking became the most infamous shipwreck in history—but what really happened on that unusually calm night in ...
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The Making and Remaking of Karl Marx’s “Capital.”
In the first English translation in half a century, Paul Reitter and Paul North distill the essence of the Marxist ...
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Rick Steves’ Europe: Pomp and consequence: The fascist sites of Europe
The fascist movements of 20th-century Europe had a sweeping impact around the world, in ways that still reverberate today. And travelers have an advantage when it comes to learning from this history: ...
‘Hindi Hindu Histories’: Fascinating accounts of four 20th-century outliers who imagined new futures
Author Charu Gupta’s fine-grained studies of lesser-known vernacular intellectuals and practitioners illuminate a whole range ...
Anson Rabinbach, Leading Historian of Nazi Culture, Dies at 79
He demonstrated that fascism had its own intellectual roots and showed how ideas, theories and an antisemitic “ethos” ...
Look inside Taliesin West, the desert home of Frank Lloyd Wright
Taliesin West in Scottsdale's McDowell Mountains foothills came from the mind of Frank Lloyd Wright. His winter home is a tribute to the desert.
The real threat to American prosperity
Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on trade wars, tech industry hubris — and how loss of faith in US institutions could spiral ...
Farewell, Ruritania: Saying goodbye to Eastern Europe’s exotic aura
The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation ...
Three Essential Style Details Every Man Should Know
Their origins date back to the 19th century, and yet they’ve endured. Knowing how and when to deploy them is a critical part ...
An expert’s honest opinion of every major city in Spain
One of Spain’s warmest cities (even in January temperatures hover around 17C) has almost all of the crowd-pleasings aspects ...