Freud’s muse: Searching for the real ‘Anna O’
Did her facial paralysis emerge from a biological condition? Was her intermittent deafness psychological or something more metaphysical?
Protests at Columbia are not justice
I thought about what would have happened if protesters were instead chanting anti-Black slogans, or even something like D.E.I. has got to die, to the...
William Shakespeare was born here. Or was he?
About 250 years after its break from the Catholic Church, England had its own Bethlehem and manger. The problem: No one really knows where Shakespeare...
A cultural revolution: Marjane Satrapi opens up on resistance in Iran
Women took to the streets and tore off their veils in what became known as the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, one of the most significant cultural and...
Threat of contagion: Fallout of bird flu infecting marine mammals
H5N1, an avian flu virus, has killed tens of thousands of marine mammals, and infiltrated American livestock for the first time. Scientists are...
The far right: Meloni leads the way to an EU takeover
In an incendiary speech, she spoke of a Europe under siege from many foreign powers and Islamist organizations profiting from anarchic immigration in...
Tracing Origins: Lava tube in Saudi, a human refuge for 7,000 years
The timing and nature of the region’s various occupations are still poorly understood. One issue is that desert heat and winds degrade bones and other...
De- Esacalation Dynamics: Biden’s small win, big failure in the Gulf
Israel and Iran have been embroiled in a shadow war for more than a decade, but they had never been this close to all-out war. While Biden’s...