Last week, we picked up our 5-year-old son from his public kindergarten in Beijing. On the way home, he proudly recited a ...

Renaissance writers reassessed their history, inventing terms like the Dark Ages — to the eternal chagrin of medievalists — ...

In a new essay, Aleksandr Šipkov goes so far as to point the finger at the philologist who, in the 1990s, helped Russia rediscover both Eastern and Western Christian traditions through his lect ...

The musicologist Lawrence Kramer dates the “invention” of listening to the 18 th century, alongside the concept of the inner self. In his 2007 book Why Classical Music Still Matters, he writes, “All ...

In “Democracy and Beauty,” Robert Gooding-Williams explores the arguments and intellectual legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois.

I published a book entitled The Origins of Religious Violence: An Asian Perspective. In my research, I discovered that there ...

Part marriage plot, part novel about novels, “Northanger Abbey” is Austen’s strangest—and perhaps most underappreciated—work.

Taking stock of Wes Anderson's impressive filmography, from Bottle Rocket to his latest, The Phoenician Scheme ...

— Junior Caminero hit two of Tampa Bay’s season-high five home runs and Zack Littell threw his first career complete game as the Rays sailed to a 16-3 victory over the Houston Astros Saturday ...

Germans won’t vote for the AfD just because an American billionaire asks them to. But social media is a tool that can shift public opinion, taking ideas that were once considered extreme and ...

May 31, 2025 — Experience a vibrant tapestry of ragas brought to life by Hindustani artists led by vocalist Supriyo Dutta. ASHK is proud to host a presentation and dialogue with Andrew Mertha on his ...

The 56yearold American yoga teacher and political strategist JEROME ARMSTRONG has come out with a tome on the Calcutta School of Yoga after extensive research and study that involved several trips to ...