He has found a new patron in BTS, the K-Pop boyband that has become a global phenomenon econ.trib.al/oH658R5
The Economist’s posts
For weeks Lady Liberty was moved between university campuses and protest sites around Hong Kong island, before being displayed atop Lion Rock
Eleanor Roosevelt was born #OnThisDay 1884. The first lady was on the right side of history on almost every subject econ.trib.al/QeourCX
Making black lives visible—making them count, in every sense—is the overarching plot-line of both Stacey Abrams’s literary and political endeavours
In the lead roles of Kylo Ren and Rey, Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley deliver the most complex emotional performances of the entire nine-film saga econ.trib.al/GgTllLf
“A searing voice [in] the fight for human dignity”, diarist and Holocaust victim Anne Frank was born #OnThisDay 1929
It explores the standing of gay men in America through the twisted pathology of Andrew Cunanan, who killed five men in 1997 econ.trib.al/zlrfULX
J. R. R. Tolkien—author of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy—was born #onthisday 1892 econ.trib.al/6jk7gdY
Bruce Springsteen is the bard of deindustrialisation, of dreams murdered and fates mastered econ.trib.al/cpFwTO4
Happy birthday Oscar Wilde, born #onthisday in 1854. This is our favourite Wilde witticism—tweet us yours
Ms Argerich, now 78 years old, is considered by many critics and classical-music fans to be the world’s greatest living pianist
“What kind of city regulates ice-cream stores more strictly than drug-dealers who kill 713 of its citizens in a single year?” asks in his new book, “San Fransicko”
The Grand Budapest Hotel wins for best film (comedy or musical) at #GoldenGlobes. Our review: econ.trib.al/euZcUxV
When most shows were led by Average Joes, “Frasier” revolved around out-of-touch, preening snobs
"We can endure much more than we think we can"—Frida Kahlo #InternationalWomensDay
Passionate, benevolent, humorous: philosopher Bertrand Russell died #OnThisDay 1970 econ.trib.al/jJ5BKfx
Ian Fleming, creator of #007, was born #OnThisDay 1908. To celebrate: the movie Bonds in brief econ.trib.al/Y7jZNay
Kazuo Ishiguro, a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer, has won the Nobel prize in literature
Franz Kafka was born #OnThisDay 1883. He depicted the world as he saw it, full of lonely and persecuted individuals econ.trib.al/e9g2Fh5
Amy Schumer, Ricky Gervais and Dave Chapelle are thought to have signed contracts with Netflix worth $13m, $40m and $60m respectively econ.trib.al/XD0Iz2n
Passionate, benevolent, humorous: philosopher Bertrand Russell was born #onthisday 1872 econ.trib.al/852tkY5
Alexander von Humboldt left Caracas #OnThisDay 1800. His travels made his reputation econ.trib.al/JP5rOeK
"I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend": singer-songwriter Freddie Mercury died #onthisday 1991
Da Vinci died #OnThisDay 1519. How did Leonardo become the great creative thinker we now consider him to be? econ.trib.al/IKR1cni
"The Big Short" is a financial film like no other econ.trib.al/fBmzqEy
Was Alexander von Humboldt—who was born #OnThisDay 1769—the greatest scientist of the 19th century? econ.trib.al/I5CDax9
Writer Albert Camus—born #onthisday 1913—was morally lucid, humane, and resolutely modern econ.trib.al/6hJX8jC
"Spotlight" wins the coveted Best Picture. It's an elegy to a bygone era of journalism econ.trib.al/VTPQ1JB
Simone de Beauvoir died #OnThisDay 1986. “The Second Sex” is considered a landmark work of the feminist movement
J.R.R. Tolkien was born #OnThisDay 1892. A biography recounts the writer's lifelong pursuit of a “mythology for England” econ.trib.al/Qx5WRgu
Egypt's greatest undiscovered pharaonic tomb may be hiding in plain sight econ.trib.al/3h1W2C0
Leonardo DiCaprio—finally!—wins Best Actor for "The Revenant" econ.trib.al/yJ7jiys
The devastating scene in the original “Dumbo” speaks to every parent’s fears of being separated from a child
Ernest Hemingway died #OnThisDay in 1961. His greatest love in his later years was his boat econ.trib.al/rSM3vRK
The Stonewall riots began #OnThisDay 1969, sparking the modern gay-rights movement across America econ.trib.al/tPRdQ8M
Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first black president #OnThisDay 1994. The paradoxes of his views and politics econ.trib.al/SAIZ9t9
How an NGO is using Bollywood films to help teach people to read econ.trib.al/Aypfh9E #InternationalLiteracyDay
"Amy"—an engrossing documentary about the short life of Amy Winehouse—wins the Oscar econ.trib.al/9klQpSZ
Leo Tolstoy died #OnThisDay 1910. His death—like his life—was a monumental event, particularly in Russia econ.trib.al/MLOTR15
Passionate, benevolent, humorous: philosopher Bertrand Russell died #onthisday 1970 econ.trib.al/yucZt8g
More people attend London’s plays and musicals than London's Premier League football matches econ.trib.al/IZuHkrQ
#OnThisDay 1945 photojournalist Lee Miller finds Hitler’s Munich apartment and has an idea. econ.trib.al/vIEdidd
Galileo died #OnThisDay 1642. He brought about one of the biggest revolutions in self-knowledge that mankind has undergone econ.trib.al/vNrY9JX
An inconvenient truth is that millennials are reading, and more than other generations econ.trib.al/YhbLRiX
C. S. Lewis—who died #onthisday 1963—was an eccentric genius and reluctant prophet econ.trib.al/HCUQvd2
Vincent van Gogh was born #onthisday 1853. He made over 800 paintings in his brief career econ.trib.al/un8xNtA
Van Gogh was born #OnThisDay 1853. A biography demolishes any romance that still attaches to the artist's life econ.trib.al/fFwAOGJ
110 individuals control 35% of #Russia's wealth - Karen Dawisha, "Putin's Kleptocracy" econ.trib.al/T4NZpho
Goethe died #onthisday 1832. His play "Faust" is widely held in near-mystical awe econ.trib.al/BHNQIDA
How "To Kill a Mockingbird" shaped race relations in America econ.trib.al/oN0lG2Q
Thomas Piketty is back in the news. ICYMI: his book "Capital" explained in four paragraphs econ.trib.al/MFA5kmu
“I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.” Singer-songwriter Freddie Mercury was born #OnThisDay 1946 econ.trib.al/0A5vfNL
Camus died #OnThisDay 1960, aged 46. He had already won the Nobel prize and introduced readers to the philosophy of the absurd econ.trib.al/wNtS4xh
Creative, unconventional, enigmatic: poet Emily Dickinson was born #onthisday 1830 econ.trib.al/Ku3aCon
Beatrix Potter was born #onthisday 1866. She created the first great children's brand econ.trib.al/H5K1n6x
Nadia Tolokonnikova on the state of Russia's prisons and what the discerning punk reads econ.trib.al/4Y6jEoB
Winston Churchill was born #OnThisDay 1874. In a country led by the weak and wobbly, his towering figure looms larger than ever econ.trib.al/JGzYsh0
J.S. Mill died #OnThisDay 1873. How we can harness the help of one of history’s sharpest minds in producing policies econ.trib.al/CczP0HL
The 11-year reign of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) is still, to many, “the most notorious in papal history”
Orwell wrote “1984” not as a prophecy but as a warning, to galvanise action so that the future he described never came to pass
Learning another language sometimes confers an intellectual boost. But that has never been the main reason to do it
"But still, like air, I'll rise": writer and activist Maya Angelou was born #onthisday 1928 econ.trib.al/0mooyCe
Photographs of the solar system are often striking in their simplicity econ.trib.al/MRYrkML
Ron Chernow’s 1,100-page biography may crown Ulysses S. Grant’s restoration
Cicero died #OnThisDay 43BC. The principle that it is rude to interrupt another speaker goes back at least to him econ.trib.al/YlkiKhH
The king who played music with Bach, debated with Voltaire and took his library into battle econ.trib.al/VJCvWNo
Ella Fitzgerald—the “First Lady of Song”—died #OnThisDay 1996. She recorded around 2,000 songs in her lifetime
“Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” was published #OnThisDay 1997, with a print run of only 500 hardbacks econ.trib.al/d6dhv4I
Author Edgar Allan Poe was born #onthisday 1809. His sense of the dramatic was unmatched econ.trib.al/A286hEt
René Descartes—famous for the aphorism "I think, therefore I am"—died #onthisday 1650 econ.trib.al/AXKkHKq
Picasso: a magician of unprecedented inventiveness. And a sculptor econ.trib.al/iNG4Ln1
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J.M. Barrie died #OnThisDay 1937. His work often deals with themes of exile, innocence and societal constraints
Queen Elizabeth II was born #OnThisDay 1926. “The Crown” offers a voyeuristic glimpse into an imagined inner world econ.trib.al/SPL4OIq
#MagnaCarta is 800 yrs old. It survives thanks to wily William Marshal (and a batch of cider) econ.trib.al/zqu56xR
Leo Tolstoy—author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina"—died 105 years ago #onthisday econ.trib.al/un6oFJv
The difficulties of “crowd-based living” began in ancient Mesopotamia, the Indus river valley, and in the Mayan and Aztec empires
Fidel Castro turns 89 today. Naty Revuelta, his lover, kept his letters in her stocking drawer econ.trib.al/lbZHdrf
Locke was born #OnThisDay 1632. He is still provoking rich intellectual debate, among Muslims as well as Christians econ.trib.al/QkMYLCL
