While recent media debates why and how his Instagram art sucks, Richard Prince’s appropriation has long been a controversial, hot topic.

Andrew Jackson had a predilection for old-fashioned fights of honor.

FIFA is a corporation--the current crisis of football fits perfectly into the model of capitalist expansion and inevitable crisis predicted by Marx.

Early writings of Charles Babbage.

Two pieces look at a 1969 oil spill in California

In a paper for Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Martyn J. Powell discusses the politics that seem to have limited the use of debtors' prisons in Ireland.

How the nearness of the Mexican border influenced formerly enslaved people in the state of Texas.

The modern Internet of Things and E.M. Forster's short story, "The Machine Stops"

A moderate amount of coffee might be genuinely good for you.

Is anonymity on the Internet linguistically possible?