New research published in Intelligence provides evidence that wisdom guides our creative abilities toward benefiting others. The findings suggest that while creativity is powerful, it requires the ...

On March 9, 1776, four months before the American colonies broke with Britain over the issue of taxation, a little-known Scottish thinker published a long, dense book with an unpromising title: “An ...

Murray Rothbard was born 100 years ago this week and his time on earth was much too short. Yet in that time he was here, he added much to the intellectual ...

Behind every breakthrough, there is a quest for truth. This desire is wired into humans—an insatiable curiosity about the ...

Truth has always been contested — what’s new, says philosopher Gila Sher, is the erosion of respect for truth in everyday ...

In the twentieth century, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus came to embody a rare but decisive intellectual figure: the thinker who refuses abstraction ...

Sen. Gallego endorsed Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner despite his ties to antisemitic figures, drawing condemnation from both parties ...

New research led by James Cook University psychology lecturer Dr. Chae Rose suggests that whether speeding is reduced by deterrence or self-control depends not only on drivers' own views about ...

Michael Sandel, the Harvard professor, has been predicting this political moment for decades. We called him to discuss where ...

The unfolding confrontation between Iran and the joint pressure of the United States and Israel must be examined not through moral simplifications but through the rigorous lenses of international ...

Philosophers who were disciples of Socrates worried about the moral and political habits encouraged by maritime life and access to the sea. Trade, mobility, and empire shaped character and transformed ...

Philosophers have long wrestled with what to do about the onlookers and profiteers surrounding those who have done terrible things.