Brother Jonathan attacks John Bull—an avatar for the Brits—with a flagon of pear cordial in this c. 1813 cartoon by Amos Doolittle of Connecticut. Alamy “Plague on you,” cries Brother ...

Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim? Dara Horn People love dead Jews. Living Jews, not so much. This disturbing idea was suggested by an ...

A talk with Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot, on his Great Consensus Cleanup proposal to address bugs in the Bitcoin protocol.