The literary critic Walter Benn Michaels challenges the prevailing trends of postmodernist theory.

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For many science-obsessed Victorians, X-rays were not just a fun novelty, but a potential miracle cure.

Urban Dictionary continues a long history of recording low-brow language. It’s also a repository of a specific kind of internet immaturity.

The Marxist sympathies of Black radical leaders like Paul Robeson, Alice Childress, and Lorraine Hansberry made them targets for the FBI.

The practice of eating fatty goose livers dates back to at least 2500 BCE. Is there a humane way to produce it?

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The Little White Wedding Chapel's changing fortunes are emblematic of the state of matrimony and romance.