shamans

Why shamanism shouldn’t be dismissed as superstitious savagery

17 May 2025 9:00 am

Our need for belief in the supernatural gave rise to a demand for ‘mystical intermediaries’, or shamans, forging man’s earliest religion from which all others developed, argues Manvir Singh

Celebrating Sequoyah and his Cherokee alphabet

24 August 2024 9:00 am

The writing system the Native American devised for his people was soon followed by a printing press, a newspaper and a far higher literacy rate than that of their oppressors

This is the golden age of the grifter – and there's a podcast for every con

24 April 2021 9:00 am

Truly we are living in the golden age of the grifter. From Fyre Fest to the WeWork empire to Theranos…