Humans rely on metaphors to guide a shared understanding of our complex world, and in a novel twist, a faculty member in the ...

Polygon Court debates Superman’s flagpole kid, the Boravia war, and what the movie’s ending really means James Gunn’s Superman kicks off a new era of DC movies, under the guardianship of Gunn and DC ...

There are figures in the annals of sport who transcend the parameters of greatness to become something more—symbols, ideals, metaphors for human potential. In boxing, that symbol is not Ali, Tyson, or ...

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Today, the dollar sign is a symbol of American power. Learn how this unusual character evolved from colonial currency to the center of the financial system.

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Tokyo Ghoul is one of the most recognizable edgy animes of the 2010s, but it's a series that fallen off thanks to odd adaptation choices.

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In the series presented here, recurring motifs of gates, doors and portals introduce a dynamic tension between the tangible ...

Why Faneuil Hall Is the Perfect Metaphor for the American Revolution’s Complicated Definition of Liberty How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial ...

In granting this pardon on Democracy Day — the very day set aside to honour the pro-democracy martyrs of the 1990s, symbols of which late Chief M.K.O. Abiola and his assassinated wife, Kudirat ...

Once a classroom essential, and a symbol of fleeting childhood, the pencil has quietly slipped into the shadows—used more for sketching dreams than writing equations. But in Sees Kaddi (which ...