Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything ...

With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation ...

A hero or a murderer? Stalin’s legacy is still a contentious issue in his birthplace, seven decades after his death ...

On call with the volunteers offering humanitarian aid to thousands of migrants from the Global South trying to enter into ...

Scenes from Aboriginal Australian pottery, brought to animated life, capture the turn of the seasons in central Australia ...

Can colour be understood geometrically? If so, what’s the best way to map it out, capturing the variables of hue, brightness and saturation? These questions have deep implications for art, physics and ...

Ascend steep cliffs to discover Ethiopia’s ancient churches carved into rock, still serving as places of worship today ...

I once exalted in the extraordinary. But as I’ve learned from Virginia Woolf, indelible beauty is also found in the everyday ...

Like many other fields, the study of the Viking Age is undergoing a revisionist transformation, as we learn to be more cautious in our terminologies and wary of the assumptions that lie behind them.

Condemned to death by firing squad, French resistance fighters put pen to paper. Their dying words can teach us how to live ...

Cambridge, home of analytic philosophy, was also a hotbed of psychical research. How did this spooky subject take root?