No trip to Italy would be complete without indulging in one of the country’s best loved culinary offerings: gelato. Shops that specialize in the stuff – gelaterie – line almost every street of the Renaissance city, drawing tourists and locals…
From football stars to tennis maestros, sportsmen and women are often cited as overpaid examples of capitalistic culture gone mad. In 2009 Tiger Woods became the first sports star to gross over $1 billion. In 2017 Cristiano Ronaldo extended a…
In the Spring of 2012, I took part in a seminar about the Black Death. It was part of a course about politics and the arts in Medieval France: compelling, comprehensive. Full of those juicy anecdotes that make history so…
So it’s happened again. Inevitably. The details are still murky, but a terrorist (let’s call him what he is) has shot up a crowd of festival-goers along the Las Vegas Strip in what now appears to be the bloodiest mass…
