The power of language lies in its ability to define human habits and values in a single word, and “abstemious” is indeed an ...

Words can offer a specific expression of complex human behaviour, and the word “tergiversation” is one of them. Even if the ...

The real shock of generative AI is not automation but the loss of language as a human monopoly. An existential reckoning.

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The Voynich manuscript is a 23.5 x 16.2cm book of about 240 pages, written in an unknown script sometime in the 1400s. The ...

A newly-developed cipher could finally shine light on how the strange text of the Voynich manuscript was devised.

Some names echo loudly through history, while others whisper from the margins, shaping thought and action in ways that rarely ...

Princeton University Press’s Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series offers contemporary translations of classic ...

Since well before President Donald Trump’s second term, the idea that the world should have three spheres of influence—an ...

Unlike the Traditional Latin Mass, which refers to the form of the Roman Rite prior to the reforms of Vatican II, ad orientem ...

The Latin tutor, as Shakespeare is called in the novel, loves her because she sees the world “as no one else does.” She loves ...

By Evelyn Uddin-Khan The year 2025 was a difficult and fearful year for immigrants on American soil. Whether one was here legally for a year, for 10 years, or for […] ...