At a time when the global conversation about artificial intelligence is dominated by capability benchmarks, job displacement forecasts, and regulatory debates, a new book is making an unusual argument ...

Coined by German philosopher Karl Jaspers, the "Axial Age" refers to the period roughly between 800 and 200 BC, when major ...

Ancient Greece was a land of gods, myths, altars, and temples that inspire books, films, and modern culture to this day. But ...

"Religion covers the Abyss, the Chaos, the Groundlessness that society is for itself; it occults society as self-creation, as ...

New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two ...

On Monday, November 18, 1985, as the ocean freighter ‘Socrates’ dragged its anchor off of Park Point, strong winds from a nasty storm slammed ship closer to the shore. By 8:00 p.m. that evening, the ...

A weekly deep dive into the current trends, slang, and viral videos of youth culture in terms that even the squarest can understand. As usual, this week's collection of youth culture flotsam is all ...

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 ...

Poison hemlock is a plant you don’t want to tangle with. It’s very invasive, and some people get rashes from touching it. But the biggest problem is that all parts of the plant are poisonous — even ...

Twice in the past four years, faculty at two of the largest university systems in the country went on strike. First it was postdoctoral students and researchers at the University of California in 2022 ...

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed. On ...