The Great Books of the Western World is a 60-volume series of books published by Encyclopedia Britannica that includes canonical Western works like “The Iliad” and “The Oddessy.” ...

Some of the best animated movies were made strictly with adults in mind. Because so many of the all-time best movies for ...

Updated at 10:40 a.m. ET on August 12, 2022. A peculiar cognitive dissonance seems to have taken hold in the world. The Western response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—led and propped up by ...

But the book that stands above the rest is Fussell’s “The Great War and Modern Memory” (1975), a bristling history of trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I, as seen through ...

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself.

The great books should be, as Adler claimed so many years ago, those works that are timeless, ask enduring questions, and inspire, by their sheer magnificence, awe in their readers.

Modern educators jettisoned the trivium, but its rediscovery began with Dorothy L. Sayers’s influential essay The Lost Tools of Learning (1947). Sayers was an English novelist and a friend of C ...

A Hollywood horror story, a teen tragedy and a couple with roots on both sides of World War II — here are PEOPLE's picks for the best books of June 2025. 01 of 18 'Glass Girls' by Danie Shokoohi ...

A Stunning Series of Informal Ceasefires Known as the ‘Christmas Truce’ Began on This Day in 1914 After official attempts at a World War I truce failed, soldiers in the trenches of the Western ...

Adler’s Syntopicon, as the index has since become known, would go on to be published as volumes two and three of the encyclopedia’s Great Books of the Western World 54-volume compendium.

As the world enters a new era of great-power competition, the United States and other high-income Western countries insist that they offer a more honest, open partnership with developing countries ...

With the world of cartoons changing so dramatically, we decided it was time to update our list of the top 50 cartoon characters of all time, taking into account the cultural influence ...