When Catholic writers, artists, scholars, critics and philosophers refer to the Catholic imagination, what do they mean? Dana Gioia is a poet and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts ...

Plato and Aristotle disagreed about the imagination. As philosopher Stephen Asma and actor Paul Giamatti pointed out in an essay in March, Plato gave the impression that imagination is a somewhat airy ...

"Imagination" is one of those words that inspire us. It reminds us of children playing and Einstein claiming that it's more important than knowledge. The word gets used in a lot of ways, but for the ...

Our society isn’t good at cultivating imagination, the faculty that we may need the most. What is imagination? Well, one way of looking at it is that every waking second, your brain is bombarded with ...

Plato and Aristotle disagreed about the imagination. As the philosopher Stephen Asma and the actor Paul Giamatti pointed out in an essay in March, Plato gave the impression that imagination is a ...

“I’ll believe it when I see it” is something cynics like to say. Willy Wonka famously reversed that. In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), his philosophy is: you’ll see it if you believe it ...