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Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history o...more

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A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

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So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces one’s chances of being a victim of violence fivefold.

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In allowing the crucifixion to take place, God did the world an incalculable favor. Though infinitely powerful, compassionate, and wise, he could thin...more

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One of the tragic ironies of the second half of the 20th century is that when colonies in the developing world freed themselves from European rule, th...more

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In the foreign country, we call the past, crucifixion was a common punishment. It was invented by the Persians, carried back to Europe by Alexander th...more

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The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast doub...more

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Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, and gay rights, which began to consolidate power ...more

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Some biblical scholars believe that the story of the fall from the Garden of Eden was a cultural memory of the transition from foraging to agriculture...more

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Matthew White, a self-described atrocitologist who keeps a database with the estimated death tolls of history’s major wars, massacres, and genocides, ...more

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During a famine, the father and stepmother of Hansel and Gretel abandon them in a forest so that they will starve to death. The children stumble upon ...more

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The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception

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What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in which humanity, speaking a single language, came so c...more