The Emperor and the Empty Tomb: An Ancient Inscription, an Eccentric Scholar, and the Human Need to Touch the Past
Is the Nazareth inscription the oldest artifact of Christianity? A mysterious document and an eccentric scholar hold the clues....
Hippies in the USSR: An Interview with Juliane Fürst
Sasha Razor interviews Juliane Fürst, curator of “Socialist Flower Power: Soviet Hippie Culture” at the Wende Museum....
Arguing in Love
Diana Selig reviews Nathaniel Frank's "Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America."...
Fire, Books, and Memories: On Susan Orlean’s “The Library Book”
What can the 1986 LAPL fire tell us about today's library?...
A Long-Haired Mule and a Porkepine
Eric Gudas dishes on Daryl Sanders’s “That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound.”...
The Texas Senate Race Is Not “Historic”
Fifty years before Tuesday’s US Senate election, a multiracial coalition of civil rights activists rewrote the rules of Texas politics....
A Muslim Founder of the Social Sciences?
In "Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography," Robert Irwin sets out to both demythologize and re-mystify the influential 14th-century philosopher....
The Close Fight for Women’s Suffrage
"The ideas and attitudes that fostered opposition to women's suffrage are still with us." Adam Winkler on "The Woman's Hour."...
The Texas Rangers: Good Guys No More
Lily Meyer reviews "The Injustice Never Leaves You."...
Himmler’s Antiquity
Alison C. Traweek discusses the racist origins of classics as a discipline....
California Sons: Miriam Pawel’s “The Browns of California”
Jake Wertz reviews “The Browns of California,” a four-generation biography of the Brown family and a portrait of the state they shaped....
Cold War Cold Files
A Hungarian author confronts his parents’ Cold War past....
