At the foot of Mount Tai in east China, archaeologists work carefully in fields abloom with flowers, gently brushing soil from ...

At the foot of Mount Tai in east China, archaeologists work carefully in fields abloom with flowers, gently brushing soil ...

Find yourself asking “Why don’t I have any energy?” You’re not alone, and you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t hit snooze or experience the midafternoon slump every once ...

Taxation has shaped civilisation from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Australia. Understanding its long history sheds light on ...

Or in some cases, not enough educated people, since certain buildings require higher social classes to work in them. If you want to colonize, those settlers have to come from somewhere.

Anti-intellectualism transcends left and right political categories; it cuts across social classes and cultures and religions. It’s a tool of control that history looks back on with horror and shame, ...

More likely, kings and emperors in the Archipelago were drawn to the prestige of the Brahmans (the Hindu priestly class which forms the highest ranking of the four Indian social classes ... These were ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

Writing under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug, a play on “goldbug” and a Confucian philosopher of the Zhou dynasty ... before they entered politics, at social gatherings when they were Thiel ...