For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work ...

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

There is, it turns out, a little examined strain of history that provides a fresh way to understand his instincts. Hidden in ...

English Aristocrat Sir Philip Sidney wrote an essay titled “In Defense of Poesy.” In this text, he defends the value of ...

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How tipping went from a medieval reward to a defining feature of America’s service industry.

Commemoration of William Christie’s eighth decade began last year with grand stagings in Paris of Charpentier’s ‘Médée’ and ...

On the edge of a thriving downtown dotted with luxury hotels and trendy restaurants is a more than 100-year-old relic of ...

An advert for Bayer's Aspirin from the early 20th century Bayer had the aspirin trademark and its US assets seized during World War One, whilst “American” Merck (now Merck & Co. in the US or ...

From a modest trip back from NYC ’74 to an epic look at early 20th century America, solid works from returning filmmakers to a handful of mindblowing debuts, these were the films that made this ...