Among the great philosophers’ names, Socrates stands as one of the most notable. Born around 470 BCE, the ancient Greek philosopher is largely to thank for founding Western philosophy and was even a ...

Mencius challenged the common fear of shame, arguing that its absence is the true danger. He proposed shame as a vital moral guide, acting as an internal compass to distinguish right from wrong. This ...

Critics argued that the Indian concept of time, cyclical and infinite, prevented long-term strategic planning. However, this criticism suffers from a blind spot, as it judges Indian strategy by ...

Daily choices about work, family and distractions reveal how people spend time and whether they are truly living before it runs out, writes Mike Suhre.

The kylix drinking cup in ancient Greek symposiums revealed who was an aristocrat and who didn’t belong to the elite circle.

International law is in a bad way these days. This is the conclusion reached by Margaret MacMillan, emeritus professor of international history at Oxford University. Canada seems to be one of the few ...

On a Monday evening last May, Danielle S. Allen, a political theorist at Harvard, strode into the university’s Faculty Club wearing sneakers and a bright orange blazer. The occa ...

The Goldwater Institute recently released a report showing that diversity, equity and inclusion policies are rampant at ...

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. So begins Edwin Markham’s lionized poem “The ...

Linguists at Charles University are reconstructing how ancient languages sounded. I discussed the Voices of Dead Languages project with one of its initiators Jan Bičovský.

This is not a new tradition. Its genealogy runs from the surrealists through Anaïs Nin and Georges Bataille, through Angela Carter's visceral mythologies and the lysergic prose poems of ...