Looking Through the Past

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Homes for Everybody?
Pro-immigration advertising and the limits of welcome
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False Dawns and Long Shadows in Iranian History
Events in Iran have rarely had predictable consequences
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Bacchanalia Reborn
From forbidden rituals to artistic inspiration
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Excelling Above All Fruits
How pineapples became the ultimate status symbol
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“I Am the First Man to Read That!”
How a printer’s discovery changed our understanding of history
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The Anatomy of a Great Painting
The link between human dissection and the great art of the Renaissance
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The Other Two
The early days on K2 and Kangchenjunga
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May 2025

The Futurist Trap
Is Silicon Valley resurrecting one of history’s most dangerous ideas?
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Phrenology's Bumpy Path
How a quack science captured the imagination -- and was eventually disproven
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Who Invented the “Founding Fathers?”
The making of a myth
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There Are People Who Can See and Others Who Cannot Even Look
The greatest early photographer's portraits of Hugo, Manet, Dumas, and more
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The Brutal Origins of the Beautiful Game
How football went from being "a bloody and murthering practice" to a global sensation
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