No Such Thing is ‘a marvelous and under-appreciated cinematic revision of the Anglo-Saxon epic’; ‘the satire of No Such Thing focuses not on our remnant fear of traditional monsters, but on our numb-headed failure to fear the functional monsters our large and exploitative corporations can become—and on those of us…

The Rothschild kidnapping of 1968 was a high-profile case that received extensive media coverage at the time. Here are some key dates and events in the news cycle of the kidnapping: March 4, 1968: The 26-year-old French socialite Marie-Hélène de Rothschild is kidnapped from her apartment in Paris by a…

The mystery of the wealthy and the poor has fascinated people for ages, but there is something particularly enigmatic about the case of Her Serene Highness Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy. Despite living at the rate of $80,000 per year, with considerably more income than that, the princess has been figuratively evicted from…

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the well-known suffragist. His great world and all that is in it belongs to women as much as to men. It is our world in full half share; not to divide and manage separately, but to administer as a whole together. All our previous history up…

Two Portraits The Princess Lwoft-Parlaghy has been giving a private view of two recently-painted portraits, one is of John Burroughs and is the best of the artist’s works so far as they have been shown to the public. It is sympathetically seen and is executed with a technical resource quite…