Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

Those leaders have rejected history, facts on the ground, biblical promises, and their own Anglican roots.

Madeline Bilis edited the Real Estate section as Apartment Therapy's former Deputy Lifestyle Director. Her work has appeared in Travel + Leisure, Boston magazine, the Boston Globe, and other outlets.

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster seems at times more biblical than Homeric.

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There are currently ∼7,000 different living human languages. The peak of language diversity may have been ∼10,000 years ago when up to 20,000 different languages might have been spoken. Languages ...

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