Culture | From witchcraft to woke
How humans invented good and evil, and may reinvent both
Over thousands of years humans domesticated themselves
Trial by boiling water was not as bad as it sounded. In medieval Europe, those accused of grave crimes might be ordered to plunge an arm into a bubbling cauldron to retrieve an object. If they were scalded, that was God’s way of revealing their guilt. The chance of acquittal would seem to be zero, but 60% of those who underwent this ordeal got off. How come?
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The glitzy new thriller is both
Americans are chuffed as chips at British English
Why doesn’t the affection run both ways?
Time for LIV, golf’s Saudi-funded rebel tour, to drift into obscurity
As a golfing experiment it has failed
Boris Johnson shows how not to write a political memoir
His new book is full of revelations, but none of the sort readers actually want
Fashion photography is in vogue
Museums and collectors now want what were once panned as commercial images for their walls
Turn down the K-pop and pay attention to K-healing
The rise of South Korean books about burnout has taken the world by storm