Byzantium didn’t fall in a day: Thoughts on the end of empires.
Lacking a dramatic moment like a battle or siege, as occurred on May 29, 1453, how do you know when an empire is really falling?
The Verge
Vertigo at midnight: The psychology of my “Alfred Hitchcock dream.”
I keep dreaming that I'm falsely accused and can't prove my innocence. That fear is real for many people in America.
Historic Painting: El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent, 1882.
Popcorn and Purple Stuff: A journey through 1990s cinema, in 25 films. (Part III)
The third installment of 1990s cinema takes us to a convenience store in New Jersey, an apocalyptic desert in Australia, and the mean streets of L.A.
Farewell, Mein Führer: The German mass suicide wave of 1945.
Why did thousands of ordinary Germans kill themselves at the end of World War II? The answer may be more complicated than you think.
Last call: how the telephone died as a cultural object.
The telephone is dead. I, for one, do not mourn its death.
Magnetic intruder: the strange story of Korean Air Lines Flight 902.
Five years before the tragedy of KAL 007, the Soviets shot down another unarmed airliner under similar circumstances.