My Great-Grandfather Poisoned Drinkers During ProhibitionIn a grim irony, his descendants – my grandmother and mother – struggled with drink. Here’s what I’d tell him about addiction.
Around the World, Many People Are Leaving Their Childhood ReligionsSurveys in 36 countries find that Christianity and Buddhism have the biggest losses from ‘religious switching.’
7 Historical Figures You Probably Didn’t Know Were Spies From children’s authors to chefs, these famous faces led little known lives of intrigue and espionage.
Wool Aliens of the British EmpireHayward realised that seeds from these plants – including wildflowers, herbs, and grasses – had travelled thousands of miles attached to the fleeces of sheep, before being delivered to textile mills in bales of wool. By documenting how the ecology of a sm
The ‘3Cs’ That Haunt Indian Education TodayThe National Education Policy 2020 reveals the government’s indifference towards education, focusing on centralization, commercialization, and communalization.
The man whose tweets helped kill DEIWe talk to Richard Hanania, an influential thinker on the online right, about how he got DEI dismantled and why he’s fallen out of love with MAGA.
A Staggering Excavation Has Rewritten the Fall of the Roman EmpireInteramna Lirenas has turned out to be far more than a “backwater town” of the Roman Empire.
Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going ViralBut in the past two years, a growing number have gone a step further and violently attacked the targets in their videos, a New York Times analysis has found.
Columbia’s Real Radical Threat Is From the GovernmentAmerican universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that. The United States is home to the best collection of research universities in the world.
Worse than Orphans‘The human family’, Henry Drummond wrote in The Ascent of Man (1894), is ‘the starting-point and threshold of the true moral life’. Man carries ‘old wild blood in his veins’, while woman makes a home: her passivity is ‘the embryo of patience’.
The Romance History ForgotThis is an excerpt from issue no. 160, “From Antarctica with Love.” Devon in the summer of 1913 was beautiful. Green fields rolled until they met the blue of a low-hanging sky dotted with fair-weather clouds. Sheep milled about on the hillsides, and the breeze smelled faintly of the sea.
Tate-Pilled Boys Are a Problem for SchoolsI watched the four hourlong episodes of the Netflix series “Adolescence” in one extended, horrifying gulp. The story follows an angel-faced 13-year-old British boy named Jamie who is accused of murdering his classmate, Katie, and lays out the effect on his family and peers.
'I met her for 30 seconds, she stalked me online for four years'The meeting between motivational speaker Brad Burton and Sam Wall lasted less than a minute. She posed for a picture with him after attending one of his workshops and later left a glowing video testimonial. It was unremarkable, Brad says.
Take a Cold Bathew Fthings expose the potential for illogicality, hypocrisy and cruelty within the Christian tradition more clearly than its attitude to sex.
The Top 5 Longreads of the WeekA Note on Paywalls In order to publish compelling original work and pay writers a living wage, publications sometimes have paywalls.