Every year, nearly two million people flock to this small Colombian city for Carnaval de Barranquilla. Here’s what to expect.

Every year, nearly two million people flock to this small Colombian city for Carnaval de Barranquilla. Here’s what to expect.
Ink wells, plaid pea coats, and Greek poetry. These are a few of Dark Academia’s favorite things in an age when arts and humanities are increasingly devalued.
These unpopular opinions are the hills I will die on.
The #FreeBritney case isn’t the only conservatorship gone bad. But the legal tool still has its merits.
What do people mean when they use authors’ names as adjectives?
Some suspect she was Shakespeare’s lover, others suspect she was Shakespeare herself. Either way, she was a badass poet.
Just a century ago, you would have been laughed out of town for saying blue was for boys.
Afrofuturism asks if the future sci-fi imagines for us has space for people of African descent.
Learn to make holy water yourself. No guarantees that it’ll solve your vampire infestation, though.
Cancel Culture: the origins, the good, the bad, and why it’s time for an alternative.
The way of the samurai, and the feudal clans they served, are still influencing modern-day Japan. Oh, and you probably drive one of their cars.
The Bechdel test should be laughably easy. Yet so many films fail and the few that pass act like they’re feminist icons for doing the bare minimum.
Fake news is nothing new. Here’s what we can learn from the fake news stories that impacted human history.
Fatphobia is one of the last legal forms of discrimination, and it’s hurting the careers of the 80% of Americans who are overweight or obese.
Spilling the tea is an evolutionary adaptation. Here’s how to gossip responsibly to get the social benefits without hurting anyone.
The cyberpunk genre made Japan the face of a technologically advanced and bleakly capitalist future. But why?