On May 10, 1933, in university towns and cities across Germany, millions of words fed the flames of giant bonfires. “One after another, books were thrown onto the funeral pyre of intellect,” the ...
“Ten Incarnations of Rebellion,” Ballantine Books, 320 pages, releases June 3. How old were you when you learned to hope? For Kalki, a young woman growing up in India under British rule, the answer is ...
FOR a fortnight in April, the UK forgot about Brexit, fixating instead on a pink boat in London’s Oxford Circus and the disruption caused by thousands of climate protesters. More than 1100 people were ...
The key word in the title of Daniel Bullen’s “Daniel Shays’s Honorable Rebellion,” subtitled “An American Story,” is “Honorable.” It is Bullen’s contention that the grievously unfair portrayal of the ...
This in-person talk is open to the public. Vaccination is required for in-person attendance. Princeton University requires everyone to wear face coverings while indoors. Pre-registration is required ...
We grew up hearing stories of the quest for an independent India, of the atrocities of the Raj, the crack of the lathis on protestors’ backs, the arrests, the hunger strikes, and the stubborn courage ...