Young Europeans join far-Right movements less out of grievance than out of a profound yearning to believe and belong ...

Few scientific disagreements lead to public controversy. But there are times when the subject or the participants in a debate so capture the public imagination that otherwise dry, technical matters of ...

The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion ...

At Wat Doi Kham, my local temple in Chiang Mai in Thailand, visitors come in their thousands every week. Bearing money and garlands of jasmine, the devotees prostrate themselves in front of a small ...

AI isn’t merely bad at writing. It does not and cannot write ...

The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand ...

‘Whose day isn’t gonna be better after watching a pink and yellow rosy maple moth fly in super-slow motion?’ You might think of moths primarily as the pesky creatures that get drawn to your lamplight ...

is a professor of philosophy at the University of Portland in Oregon. He is the author of the Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hume on Morality (2000). In the novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), ...

Youthful joy and civil unrest collide in this epic road trip tale ...

A slight shift in Cleopatra’s beauty, and the Roman Empire unravels. You miss your train, and an unexpected encounter changes the course of your life. A butterfly alights from a tree in Michoacán, ...

is assistant professor of Classics at Cornell University in Ithaca, US. She is working on a book titled Bad Readers and Ancient Rome. A 3rd-century Egyptian fragment of Sappho’s poetry from papyri ...

For most people today, public elections are synonymous with democracy. However, between 508 and 322 BCE, Athenians favoured a lottery system known as ‘sortition’. They largely believed it to be more ...