WILLIAM WATSON, assistant keeper in the department of oriental antiquities in the British Museum, is a specialist in Chinese archaeology. The photographs accompanying his article were supplied to him from China for use in an exhibition.
John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?
The international community is debating whether wealthy nations should compensate poorer ones for the ruin brought about by climate change.