For six weeks in the winter of 1937, Imperial Japanese troops entered Nanking, then the capital of China. What followed remains one of the most contested atrocities of the twentieth century. Between 40,000 and 300,000 civilians were killed—depending on who is counting. The Nanking Massacre was more
Before NASA, there was the Vatican Observatory. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calendar and gave the modern world the rhythm of “A.D.” time itself. The Church’s historical struggle with astronomy was never truly a war on science—it was a contest for the ownership of heaven.
The Philosopher Who Never Said “Superman” Hitler reportedly kept a copy of Nietzsche on his desk—but the philosopher of freedom never wrote the ideology that later borrowed his name. Friedrich Nietzsche, who sought to liberate the mind from herd morality, became posthumously chained to one of history’s darkest
Once the battlefield was land, then oil—now it is attention. Psychonomics is the economics of the mind, tracing how thought itself became a commodity. In early-1900s Vienna, Freud monetized introspection; psychoanalysis became the prototype of a therapy industry. Every era since has turned psychology into a market, from the
The Gallery with No Names North Korea’s greatest artists are ghosts—unknown, uncredited, unseen beyond their borders. At the center stands the Mansudae Art Studio, one of the world’s largest art production houses, established in 1959 and often described as employing thousands. Pyongyang’s painters are both state
Lipstick bans and K-Pop billboards share a lineage—beauty as politics. In the 2020s global soft-power race, Seoul Fashion Week livestreams, Dubai influencer visas, and the Paris Olympics’ design diplomacy show how nations now export aesthetics the way they once exported oil or steel. Visual cue: collage of a K-Pop
From Renaissance painters to hip-hop prophets how artists keep resurrecting the same divine archetype for a secular age.
The Roosevelt family wasn’t just political royalty— it was America’s hidden monarchy, weaving Wall Street, war, and aristocracy into one dynasty.
A fairy tale empire turned corporate kingdom. How Disney rewrote imagination into property and built the modern myth machine.
A capitalist utopia with communist roots. Inside the paradox of Singapore — where control, order, and surveillance replaced revolution.
Desire is the new data. How AI, loneliness, and the attention economy turned sex into a software update.