Simone Weil: Voluntary Worker - JSTOR Daily
The weeks Weil spent working in French factories helped to develop her ideas about the meaning and value of labor.
The weeks Weil spent working in French factories helped to develop her ideas about the meaning and value of labor.
In 1905, a group of writers and painters gathered in a London home and began a conversation on politics, love, sex, and art that lasted decades.
A brief history of Africa’s most brutal dictator and what his legacy means for Equatorial Guinea today.
Warriors rarely give up their power, but the samurai of Japan dwindled away rapidly after the Meiji Restoration and the modernization of the country.
The first French nuclear bomb test took place in the Sahara in 1960 in the midst of the Algerian War, but French history doesn’t connect the two events.
The co-existence of economies—one based on rice, the other on money—pushed the Tokugawa government toward financial misery and failure.
At the heart of recent US Supreme Court decisions, the Fourteenth Amendment was framed to require free speech and free elections in the South.
The internet may have changed the concept of the television cliffhanger, but is it possible that knowing the ending of something increases our enjoyment?
How users feel about illegal downloading may have a lot to do with privilege.
We may want to support the #MeToo victims, but many of us also feel allegiance to our favorite celebrity. And the internet is at the heart of that dynamic.
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