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At a young age I knew more about Viking rune stones and fifteenth-century Venetian commerce than is common among relatively well balanced late adolescents, but that was only because...

In 1950, Pope Pius XII cautioned against the “historicist” mentality which is inclined to measure the merit of things against an imagined practice of the distant past. This mentality...

Netflix announced its series The Crown as a “biopic” unprecedented in quality and cost—and that was not false advertising. The ungainly term “biopic” apparently first appeared in 1951, but...