Bard College classicist James Romm, author of memorably good books such as Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero and Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight ...

Human beings do not like human beings much in this millennium. They don’t even like to be left with themselves—creating distance from their own minds with the use of opioids and hallucinogens. They ...

To access this episode early and ad-free, subscribe to BBC Podcast Premium on Apple Podcasts. The episode will be available for free with adverts on 16th January. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ...

The first years of the millennium have become, for interesting reasons, a golden age of popular political biography. The young British writer Simon Sebag Montefiore has just produced Stalin: The Court ...

Intellectually, America and the West owe much of their patrimony to the Greeks, primarily the Athenians. The birthplace of democracy and philosophy, Athens fostered Plato and Aristotle, the famous ...

Thucydides has been enjoying quite the media moment, despite being dead for more than 2,400 years. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and national security adviser H.R. McMaster have both been known to cite ...

Casey Duby is an avid TV writer, watcher, and reviewer. She graduated from Emerson College in 2021 with a focus in Writing for Film and Television, where she wrote several pilots and watched countless ...

Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons has been cast as Plutarch Heavensbee in Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping,” the studio announced on Friday. A future Head Gamemaker and rebellion leader ...

Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons has been cast as Plutarch Heavensbee in Lionsgate's "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping," the studio announced on Friday. A future Head Gamemaker and rebellion leader ...

"The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping" hits theaters Nov. 20, 2026. Jesse Plemons volunteers as tribute. The actor has been cast to play Plutarch Heavensbee in the upcoming film "The Hunger Games: ...