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A.M. JUSTER | French departments do not lavish attention on the golden era of Moliére and Racine to the exclusion of later French writers...

LIANA CHUA | Recently, a certain meme made the rounds on my (admittedly anthropologist-heavy) social media feed...

BLAKE SMITH | The election of Trump heralds a “Dark Age” of ignorance and violence...

MARGARET S. MAUK | Victorian culture—permeated with spiritualists and séances—concerned itself with death on a personal and intimate...

ADHAAR NOOR DESAI | I think most of my students don’t find Shakespeare very funny when they read his plays, even after they’ve grown...

STEVEN ZHOU | On the morning of September 16th, 1920, a horse-drawn carriage pulled up in front JP Morgan Bank on 23 Wall Street...

ED SIMON | Chidiock Tichborne, of unlikely name but aristocratic birth, spent the evening of September 19, 1586, in the Tower of London...

STEPHEN S. BUSH | Nick Cave has said that in Until, his massive, elaborate, and provocative installation at MASS MoCA, he intends to pose...

LAURA MOFFATT | I’m becoming increasingly convinced that architectural history is the most inclusive of studies...

ABRAM LUEDERS | In 1995, Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam sounded the alarm...

SOHAIB I. KHAN | Pakistan’s descent into violent forms of religious extremism has recently become the subject of best-selling books...

SUSANNAH HESCHEL | Racist oppression, as J. Kameron Carter has made clear, is a theological construct transferred to the political institutions of society.