Scott Mclaughlan

Any meaningful attempt to grasp Albert Einstein’s genius must begin with the influences and circumstances that shaped his early life and education.

Not only was Albert Einstein history’s greatest physicist, but also a passionate humanitarian, philosopher, and pacifist.

Albert Einstein was a first-rate physicist and scientific celebrity. He was also a profound political thinker and one of the twentieth century’s most devastating critics of capitalism.

The late French anthropologist Marc Augé’s theory of supermodernity offers a compelling and timely lens through which to better understand our contemporary era of smartphone-mediated reality.

Ancient precursors and medieval antecedents aside, the modern passport system was forged in the 1920s to restrict freedom of movement after the First World War.

Cold War portrayals of the USSR as a rapacious colonial power seeking to dominate the “free world” were exaggerated. Yet the Soviet Union undeniably engaged in forms of “internal colonialism” that warrant greater acknowledgment.

Alan Lomax was a legendary collector of folk music, author, broadcaster, oral historian, musicologist, and filmmaker who raised the profile of folk music worldwide.

Carl Linnaeus is revered as the father of modern taxonomy and reviled as a key figure in the birth of scientific racism.