Not content with writing the music of his time, Richard Wagner proposed that his job as a composer was to write the music of the future.
David Huron | Aug 12, 2022
When it comes to the modern history of Islamic art, the story of Musil's "discovery" of Qusayr ‘Amra epitomizes the difference between objects as they exist and knowledge about them.
Shahzad Bashir | Aug 9, 2022
Iofan’s career is a precise reflection of all the compromises that architects must make with power.
Deyan Sudjic | Aug 4, 2022
When we enter the silence, we return from the exile that is our ordinary state of mind.
Shierry Weber Nicholsen | Jul 28, 2022
To many urban Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.
Peter Norton | Jul 25, 2022
New research on magical thinking challenges many traditional views of cognition.
Gustav Kuhn | Jul 19, 2022
Historian Peter Baldwin explores the evolution of the state's role in crime and punishment over 3,000 years.
Peter Baldwin | Jul 15, 2022
A poetic, geographic, and botanical journey of perfume discovery.
Jean-Claude Ellena | Jul 12, 2022
A deep history of mass manipulation, from the 1920s through the mid-1970s.
Robert Gehl and Sean Lawson | Jun 29, 2022
Two leading voices in evolutionary consciousness science explore the subject through words and images.
Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka | Jun 24, 2022
