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"O brave new world, / That has such people in't!" One of Shakespeare's most debated heroines, Miranda, exclaimed in The Tempest. "Such people" then and now are the kind of people who launch just wars.

When Aldous Huxley saw a Brave New World in his crystal ball (1932), he borrowed the name soma for his panacea: “There is always soma, delicious soma, half a gram for a half-holiday, a gram for ...

In her final days, Marianne Faithfull shared a list of books that mirrored her life's journey. Explore the ten titles that she listed as her favourites.

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Anti-Israel protests have long since graduated from harassment to outright violence. Palestine Action, a UK-based anti-Israel group, has sharply escalated its violent campaign, increasing from 17 ...

Pico della Mirandola is the unofficial saint of transhumanists because he was pushing human plasticity over the edge. He ...

Since the incredible cruelty of Pahalgam, the spectre of unrelenting death has leapt out of the sub-conscious to pervade and ...

When someone tries a Huxley energy drink for the first time, founder Simon Solis-Cohen watches for the reaction. “Their eyes widen a little bit, and they’re like, ‘That actually tastes good,’” he said ...

Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, "For a century and a half, Wyoming had defined mothers in the most obvious and natural way conceivable. She’s the ...

Perhaps Joyce’s most immediately affecting writing about music is in “The Dead,” the last (and longest) tale in his book of ...