Frozen giant: Putin's options, one year into the Ukraine war. The key to gaming out what Putin will do is to see him in the context of Russian rulers of the past.
Historic Painting: "The Funeral of Shelley" by Louis Édouard Fournier, 1889. This painting captures the essence of a defining moment in 19th century Romantic literary history.
Speak no evil: the Satanic Verses affair, 34 years on. The controversy over one of the world's most infamous books still leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
It started with a bad glass of wine: the St. Scholastica Day riots. The amazing story of how a single glass of wine led to a violent riot and a watershed moment in English history.
Iran-Contra: the real life "wall of crazy." (Video) My new video analyzes and deconstructs the poorly-understood foreign policy scandal of the 1980s.
June 18, 1178: The day the Moon blew up. How five English monks witnessed an extraordinary astronomical event.
Mr. Spock to the bridge: the real-life search for planet Vulcan. In 1860, a French astronomer was convinced he'd discovered a planet he called Vulcan. Wait, what?