Peter Higgs (1929–2024): A Gentle Giant of Science

We have lost an important scientist; we have also lost a wonderful man.

Lawrence M. Krauss

14 Apr 2024 · 7 min read

Peter Higgs visiting the CMS detector at CERN, November 15, 2018. Photo by Marc Buehler via Flickr.

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New France 2.0

In the 25th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the creation of Quebec’s first permanent farming settlements in the 1630s—and the death of Samuel de Champlain.

Greg Koabel

26 Feb 2025 · 26 min read

Red figures of a Greek man and woman against a black background. They are drinking and caressing each other.

Monogamy and the Making of Western Civilisation

The institution of monogamy in Classical Greece may have led to a host of phenomena that shaped the modern West: from individualism and abstract thinking to liberalism and democracy.

James Kierstead

26 Feb 2025 · 8 min read

A Violent History Obscured

South Korean Nobel laureate Han Kang’s literary experimentation thwarts rather than advances her professed concern for the suffering of everyone, everywhere, all the time.

Brad Strotten

26 Feb 2025 · 7 min read

President Zelenskyy in a black shirt, looking concerned.

Ukraine’s Terrible Choice

After three punishing years of war, the Trump administration is preparing to reduce a ravaged country to the status of US protectorate.

John Lloyd

25 Feb 2025 · 16 min read

An image of America personified as a Roma goddess, guided by Minerva, with shield and flag.

Donald Trump is often described as an imperialist and an expansionist and these terms are usually used interchangeably. Neither of these descriptions is meant to be flattering, but the larger problem is that they are imprecise.