“We should remember that the people we study lived in a world crowded with invisible beings,” Peter Brown writes in our June 6, 2024 issue, as part of his review of Peter Heather’s book about the rise of Christianity. He’s referring to people living in “late antiquity,” a designation that Brown brought to the English-speaking […]

Eighty years after D-Day, few know one of its darkest stories: the thousands of French civilians killed by a British and American carpet-bombing campaign of little military purpose.

In the Renaissance, reading became both a passion and a pose of detachment—for those who could afford it—from the pursuits of wealth and power.

rubbing the filters back and forththrough a knob on the screen that’s codedto brush glaze and bury echoeson photographs my oiled finger pads never once touched  So much past arrives on my screen coupled with soft pings in the pocket strange temple bellAnd in these images pass chords of facesof which I know next to nothingwhile all fall […]

Catholic postliberal thinkers opposed to modern liberal individualism are less interested in transforming people's unhappy lives through the power of the gospel than in jockeying for political power as the vanguard of a conservative revolution.

In its reexamination of entrenched narratives about the expropriation of Native land, Michael Witgen’s work is changing how Native people are situated in the arc of North American history.