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Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead?Many explanations have been offered for Spiritualism, but the movement was more than a fad.

Learning to Ski in a Country of Beginners As China prepares to host the Winter Olympics, its people get on skis.

The Last Stand at Steve Bannon’s “Gladiator School”The Academy for the Judeo-Christian West is trying to stave off eviction from Trisulti, an eight-hundred-year-old monastery outside Rome, where its founder hopes to offer courses like “Cultural Marxism, Radical Jihad, and the C.C.P.’s Global Information Warfare.”

Is Online Test-Monitoring Here to Stay?Despite students’ complaints and the coming return to in-person learning, Proctorio and its rivals are betting on a lucrative future.

Running: A Success Story Look, I know you’re probably sick of hearing about it. But it really is great.

A Rediscovered Featurette from the Modern Master of Horror George A. Romero’s “The Amusement Park,” from 1973, dramatizes the troubles faced by elderly Americans.

What Did COVID Do to Friendship?The pandemic reoriented our economy of attention, redefining the limits of who and what we could care about.

Jordan Peterson’s Gospel of Masculinity How did a once obscure academic become the Internet’s most revered—and reviled—intellectual?

How Nasty Was Nero, Really?A show at the British Museum portrays him as the victim of a Roman smear campaign.

The Dark, Democratizing Power of the Social-Media Stock Market BitClout collapses everything—art, humor, personhood—into money, laying bare just who, and what, we are willing to pay for.

For Biden, Trump Is an Easy Act to Follow in Europe But no amount of rallying the allies is going to make it easy to meet with Vladimir Putin.

Kamala Harris Argues Her Case Just a few of the many reasons to steer clear of the U.S.A.

A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places.

A Would-Be Opponent Crashes a Marjorie Taylor Greene Rally Marcus Flowers, a Black Army veteran who has raised more than a million dollars in his bid to unseat the QAnon-friendly congresswoman in 2022, gets kicked out of Greene and Matt Gaetz’s “America First” tour stop in Georgia.

The Fight for the Heart of the Southern Baptist Convention How the Convention’s battle over race reveals an emerging evangelical schism.

Ancient Greece’s Army of Lovers Comprising a hundred and fifty male couples, Thebes’s Sacred Band was undefeated until it was wiped out in 338 B.C. In the nineteenth century, the mass grave of the men was found.

How Can I Help You?Don’t think too hard about it.

Thirty-Three-Hit Wonder Nick Paumgarten profiles Joel, who tells him, “You know, if you type ‘Billy Joel’s house’ into Google maps, you get Madison Square Garden.”

Diana Nyad Breaks the Waves Can the record-breaking long-distance swimmer and senior citizen swim from Florida to Cuba?