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Cultural Identity
Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.
While there is more to North Korean cinema than meets the eye, the country’s film industry ultimately amounts to little more than a mouthpiece for the ruling Kim dynasty.
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” Steinbeck writes.
Is there any good reason for assigning North and South the way we do, or could we have just as easily done the reverse?
Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.
Vladimir Putin adores Fyodor Dostoevsky. A close reading of the legendary author’s texts reveals the feeling might have been mutual.
We value human life in a way that assumes we possess a sacred something not found in beings like lambs, turkeys, or mosquitoes.
When Saint Ambrose of Milan was venerated, his life became public property, its meaning expanding with the unique interpretations of each new generation.
Since Ukraine originally meant “borderland,” the territory was already a target for several kingdoms.
Non-Western thought is vast and ancient, so why don't some consider it philosophy?
People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
Just don't expect the apocalypse to look like it does in the movies.
In America, Cup Noodles has succeeded by hiding its Japanese roots.
Many of the furniture giant’s products are named after Swedish locations. Not everyone is happy about that.
The singer-songwriter distilled the essence of the holidays into a hit song, and for her efforts she was crowned the Queen of Christmas.
Why does hearing sad music feel so good?
This map of Hutterite colonies in North America says something about religion and evolution — and more precisely, speciation.
Although equal parts Hollywood blockbuster and Putinist propaganda, "Trotsky" still manages to capture the good, the bad, and the ugly of Russia’s revolutionary past.
Tighten your ‘thopter seatbelts and get those worm-hooks ready: we're going to unpack the hype surrounding Dune, both the book and the movie.
The top of Mauna Kea is the ideal physical site for this new, ready-to-be-built telescope. But that’s far from the only concern. For many years, astronomers have looked forward to a […]