We were a team of five: Jan, Paul, Jonas, Claudia, and me. Four dendrochronologists and one son of a dendrochronologist. Jan Esper flew in from Germany. Paul Krusic drove his Land Rover from his home ...

Born into an elite Japanese family, the photographer Akihiko Okamura (1929-85) was an unlikely candidate to become one of the most perceptive chroniclers of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. A ...

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Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique ...

The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs ...

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Young Europeans join far-Right movements less out of grievance than out of a profound yearning to believe and belong ...

From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse. But it names something real – and must be reclaimed ...

Youthful joy and civil unrest collide in this epic road trip tale ...

Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others?