Tue, May 21 2019

ARTISTS HAVE long been inspired by the great issues of their day. Eugène Delacroix's topless amazon, Liberty, celebrated the revolution that toppled the French king in 1830. Picasso's “Guernica” mourned the horror of the…

Tom remembers the day he decided he wanted to be a theoretical astrophysicist. He was deep into research about black holes, and had amassed a box of papers on his theories. In one he speculated about the relationship between black holes and white…

BEEP, BEEP, BEEP went the first satellite to orbit Earth, the primitive Sputnik 1, launched in 1957. No matter that it could do little else. That Soviet communists had won the first space race sparked an American crisis of confidence. This had…

Deconglomerating can be hard to do profitably Corporate fashions come and go, and this season's is industrial break-ups. In America and Europe, once-sprawling conglomerates are being carved up into focused companies that investors hope will fare…

THE ATENEO VENETO, a grand 16th-century palace near the Fenice Opera House, once hosted a fraternal order which cared for convicted prisoners in their final days. For the past 200 years, however, the site has been a forum for discussion, drawing…