As he demonstrated so spectacularly with Monty Python’s Life of Brian, John Cleese has never suffered from a fear of offending religious sensibilities. None the less, some people do tend to take ...

Money is only one facet of social relations, however. Communities have long discriminated against and ostracized residents with debilitating illnesses—especially those with outward physical effects.

In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a ...

I hear the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live is on its way to starting in Britain, where I now live. I wish them luck, because the UK is definitely funnier than the United States.