How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world ...

A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap ...

We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US ...

All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history ...

There is some other type of beauty that is not visual,’ he explained to us in an interview. ‘I’m not sure what it is. Perhaps ...

is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. He is also chair ...

Praying is a cognitive practice full of problem-solving resources. You can learn from it even if you don’t want to do it ...

is the Anne and George L Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee ...

Both Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his friend Adam Smith agreed that modern humans were vain creatures, ceaselessly adjusting and masking themselves to gain the favour of others. However, as this short ...

is associate professor of moral and political philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Málaga in Spain. She is the author of Contexts of John Stuart Mill’s Liberalism: Politics ...