C.S. Lewis is a surprisingly complicated person. Paradoxically, his broad appeal springs from what he is less known for: his prodigiously gifted creative mind, and his mythological…
“The value of nothing? Out of nothing comes something.” How do you create something out of nothing? How do you create a life–an identity–out of that…
What is morality and where does it come from? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices,…
Things aren’t always as they seem. Malcolm Gladwell’s books often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences and often clarify scholarly research, particularly…
What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk, photographer and author Matthieu Ricard has devoted his life to these questions, and his…
“Let’s make the feminist revolution, a humanist revolution. As whole human beings we will be better caregivers and breadwinners…the revolution for human equality is happening…how far…
“The best thinking is always playful.” “Philosophy in America in the 1980s and ’90s seemed to be losing its way in dry, scholastic debates,” writes Clancy Martin…
Plato’s main aim was less to teach than to show how you don’t know what you really think you know. The brilliant and provocative Rebecca Newberger…
Taboos, Pinker says, certainly served (and serves) a purpose in human societies, in general by keeping one connected to the tribe through a shared sets of…
“Chance favors the connected mind.” How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Steven Johnson’s fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s coffee houses to Charles…
