In the vein that documented historical facts are always a better story, and most certainly stranger than chimerical legends, myths and tall tales, I share this one from the deep ...

The return of the angels has long been considered a sign of the coming apocalypse. Times seem particularly millenarian at the ...

Some fear we’ll be buried in brimstone; others expect to be extinguished by A.I. But is there comfort to be found in our ...

In this changed cultural preference, the cultural gap between Southerners and Northerners in Nigeria began to close.

It's unclear when Mohammad Usman, a former resident of Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, was incarcerated. But being an anti-India ...

For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era ...

Mr. Lynskey picks out millenarian aspects of the postapocalyptic “Mad Max” film franchise, for instance, which makes survivalism seductive, or the “cataclysm novels” of J.G. Ballard ...

The US president's Gaza 'Riviera' plan revives the various missionary efforts of 19th century American Protestants to ...

He is presently working on a monograph which traces the feedback loop between state funding of the tech sector, popular-science writing and science/tech coverage in the newspapers of record, and the ...

This will be the first of many shattering weeks in 2025. Even the cleverest members of the establishment that is being routed have started to acknowledge publicly that the old older is dead. This ...

Despite (sometimes valid) stereotypes of Africa as a continent where women are often politically and socially marginalized, ...