The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.

The soul of a nation is its history, its literature, and its shared culture. The National Endowment for the Humanities has ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

Gert Heinrich, winner of the 2025 Charles Goodyear Medal, grew up in East Germany during the height of the Cold War—eager to expand his intellectual horizons, but prevented from fully doing do at the ...

Israel is something of an innocent bystander in the looming global trade war. But even if there are reasons to doubt the administration’s judgment, its ultimate goal is correct.The post ...

It all starts with something called the Kakeya conjecture. A “conjecture” is a math guess—an idea that seems true, but nobody ...

Fermat—most famous for his mysterious “ last theorem ,” which vexed experts for decades—contributed all kinds of useful ...