Philosopher Immanuel Kant believed happiness is not a gift but a personal creation. He stressed individual responsibility for ...

Everyone knows that. But treating those limits as moral collapse is an evasion, allowing critics to keep the moral ...

A new history of American apologetics from Daniel K. Williams offers careful detail, worthwhile lessons, and an ambitious, ...

By Aditya Mukherjee When Friedrich Nietzsche declared that ‘God is dead’, he was announcing the onset of a profound ...

Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute ...

By Jug Suraiya Paradoxes and other mischievous pranks our minds play on us. Write on a piece of paper ‘The statement on the reverse is true’. Turn the paper over and write ‘The statement ...

The feeling of beauty, uniquely, bridges the divide between the objective, deterministic world of nature and knowledge and the subjective, free world of judgment and morality. That’s why computers, ...

As I think about the year ahead, I find myself returning once more to Kant and his reminder that, in human affairs, no one ...

Omri Boehm’s new book argues that both the left and the right must abandon divisive identity politics and embrace the ...

African political elites have shown that they lack the mental magnitude, the steely discipline and the nationalistic self-sacrifice to produce the institutional framework for the postcolonial order in ...

In an age of fragmentation, the cumulative insights of philosophers, scientists, poets, and mystics offer a discipline of attentiveness—a path to think carefully, act justly, and remain open to wonder ...

Why do people choose a particular religion? Attracted from a young age to Islam, Grégory Gonty, a 35-year-old Belgian social ...