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The history of rubber production is charged with social injustice and rapacity. In “Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia,” professor Gregg Mitman looks at Firestone's actions in the 1920s.
A new book takes us inside the courtroom where the Duchess of Kingston stood trial for bigamy—and became an international sensation.
Authors rejected the reductionism of cancel culture to embrace everyone from Churchill to Orwell in all their complicated glory
Authors rejected the reductionism of cancel culture to embrace everyone from Churchill to Orwell in all their complicated glory
Hulton Archive / Getty Images In the late summer of 1777, anyone standing on the banks of the Gulf of Finland might have beheld a most spellbinding sight: a three-masted maritime marvel of polished wood and golden paint, its sails billowing in the northern wind. On the deck of the yacht, they might have spotted the lone figure of a woman, her eyes fixed on the course of the Neva river flowing towards St Petersburg. If they could have seen inside, they would have found contents as exotic as the ship’s story: a menagerie of animals, including small monkeys; an orchestra; two clergymen (a Cath...