Western Culture

The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at this ancient UNESCO World Heritage Site in Istanbul, Turkey.

A newly discovered settlement in the north-western Nile delta was built by the Egyptian New Kingdom perhaps 3500 years ago and included a temple dedicated to pharaoh Ramesses II

Slop is a great term for GenAI art. I think we can do better.

After failing to win over Wisconsin voters in the state Supreme Court election, Musk's days of bankrolling MAGA may be coming to an end.

Many in higher education worry Trump's efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities are not finding many allies to defend them.

When you stop to think about it, it's really remarkable how much technology has transformed the way we connect, date, and explore intimacy. Gone are the days of cryptic personal ads in the back of the newspaper, and most people would cringe at the idea of a singles' bar or club, so it's safe to […]

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The high value of the fifth-century-B.C. artifacts found in Kazakhstan indicates that wealthy or even "royal" Sarmatians were buried there.

USAID awarded $260 million in grants to various organizations linked to George Soros who openly uses his organizations to alter global democracies. It has

Adults are significantly less likely to be married or to live with a partner than they used to be.

Do we still remember freedom?

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- United States Cowboy, Inc. announced today its launch of USCowboy.com, a new media company that aims to serve fans and enthusiasts of...

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

A new concept tries to account for humanity's connection to the entire planet.

AMAC Action strongly supports this legislation which will protect American communities and prevent further tragedies like Laken Riley's.

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war.

Don't ignore the elements of East Asian and Indian culture that explain why neither region has created a civilization on par with the United States.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was 17 years old when he first received his vocation to become a priest. It happened on Sept. 21, 1953 — the beginning of spring in Buenos Aires — during a spontaneous visit to the confessional, or what Catholics call the sacrament of reconciliation. This spiritual turning