Culture

Origins and evolution of carnival in Western Europe

Carnival and pre-Lenten celebrations vary across Europe, and each country or reg...

The future you don't want to live in five essential books

We don't know what the future will be like. But we know how we don't want it to be.

Five science fiction novels you can't miss

There are thousands of science fiction novels, of the most varied genres and the...

Proudhon, the man who believed in Humanity

Self-government, individual freedom and the abolition of state authority and cap...

Oscar Wilde's Literary Disciples

Oscar Wilde died 123 years ago, on November 30, 1900. But his unique style still...

Ethnicity or religion: what is more important for Jews

The ethnic or the religious group? What is more important for a Jew?

The Berlin Conference: how European powers divided Africa

139 years ago, the major European colonial powers gathered in Berlin to negotiat...

The origins of Halloween

Halloween, as we know it today, has its origins in ancient Celtic and Roman trad...

The tragic fate of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, and essayist, r...

Karl Marx and the colors of Utopia

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, political theorist, and revolutio...

The Apocryphal Gospels, the hidden side of Christianity

The acceptance of the so called "apocryphal texts" is often tied to the historic...

The role of ancient African leaders in the development ...

The role of ancient African leaders in the development of slavery is a complex a...

What unites and what separates the three Abrahamic holy...

The sacred books of the three great monotheistic religions were (and are) a pret...

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