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By the end of the 19th century, the Devil had become a figure of myth. Ironically, that helped his image proliferate in popular culture.

Pope Gregory XIII was patron of Rome’s renaissance, and a legal luminary whose influence transcends the ages.

Do the words we use to speak of economic matters, matter? I believe they do, but not by the propagation of textbookish jargon. Rather, the main way they matter is in shaping public ethics. Economics has…

Nelson was ordained as the ‘prophet, seer and revelator’ of the Mormon church in 2018. He was 93 at the time.

Pierre Hadot sees philosophy as a guide to improving our contemporary lives.

Many great artists died in 2016: Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Paul Cox, Shirley Hazzard. It was a year of creative foment and as always, intense debate about the importance of the arts to a thriving, democratic society.

Antoinette de Saint-Étienne was a Canadian First Nations woman of the 17th century whose beautiful singing voice attracted the attention of a queen.

This is the third in a series covering the background and current dynamics of this Saturday’s fiercely fought ‘nine-in-one’ elections in Taiwan. As recently as two decades ago, free and fair elections…

The weather might be turning, and the sun might be shining – but these picks will have you wanting to spend some more time on the couch.

The connection between periods of crisis and autocratic rule is deeply embedded in the Russian consciousness.