Objets sacrés, objets secrets

The traditional way of stating the common view of the moral asymmetry between keeping secrets and lying is that keeping secrets is prima facie morally permissible, whereas lying is...

Nombreux sont les objets qui appartiennent à notre propre patrimoine culturel et qui, familiers de ce fait, échappent à notre attention. Paradoxalement, lorsque lesdits objets sont...

In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the State Department was a haven for communists and traitors. Among famous targets, like Alger Hiss, the senator also named librarian...

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805–71) is often called the father of modern conjuring. His name was later adopted by magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, whose highly sceptical e...