It was not inevitable that the chair would become the world's most widely used tool for sitting.
Jazz has never been more respectable. But did it lose its vitality when it moved uptown?
Buddhism has existed for more than 2,500 years. Perhaps no other religion has spread more widely around the globe, or been more misunderstood.
Many Americans have embraced Buddhism and made it their own, but deep rifts among varied sects threaten their future unless they can find common ground.
Perhaps nothing reveal the true character of Victorian England--or has proved more enduring--than its literature.
Victorian England--named for the queen who presided over the world's largest empire--is, ironically, remembered most vividly in India, not Britain.
Despite claims of its demise, the footnote lives on, serving its widely misunderstood functions.
Official symposia and ceremonies marked France’s “Malraux autumn” last year. But they were not the end of interest in the writer who became his nation’s first minister of cultural affairs. His vision of the unifying power of national culture grows even more pertinent, to France and to other nations, in these contentious times.
Apart from questions of racial injustice, affirmative action raises questions about a new style of politics in America.
The European continent has been wracked by war throughout its long history, but accepting the lessons of that past has paved the way for peace and cooperation.