
“For all their contractual ideas, Puritans ‘suspected that failure to marry was a sign of God’s ill favor.’” Noah Diekemper unpacks colonial American views on #marriage
“For all their contractual ideas, Puritans ‘suspected that failure to marry was a sign of God’s ill favor.’” Noah Diekemper unpacks colonial American views on #marriage
How many alkali metals can you name? If the answer is none, your high school chemistry class let you down. There’s an answer to this … Read More ›
The 1994 Disney cartoon The Lion King draws on Shakespearean tragedy, Japanese animation, biblical proportions, and the music of Elton John to craft a rich, … Read More ›
In the wake of Congressional hearings on the possibility of D.C. statehood, Washington Post columnist Robert McCartney published a “Perspective” piece promising to show that … Read More ›
Suppose you see a trolley racing down its tracks, unable to stop. Further down, there are five people tied to said tracks. You, meanwhile, are … Read More ›
Ever since the dawn of history, some go-to techniques have wormed themselves into mankind’s habits, despite having no business being there. That clichéd opening for … Read More ›
“Friends are just strangers you haven’t alienated yet.” If someone said this to you, you probably wouldn’t think that he had decided to refer to … Read More ›
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Humanity consumes resources, but resources are finite. Therefore, we are destined to one day run out of … Read More ›
At heart, fiction is a made-up story. These stories draw on the real world for context, structures, settings, and even characters, however. More often than … Read More ›