The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them ...

In 2006, I published a book called Better Never to Have Been. I argued that coming into existence is always a serious harm. People should never, under any circumstance, procreate – a position called ...

The US filmmaker John D Boswell (aka Melodysheep) is known for crafting meticulously researched CGI documentaries that, epic in both production and scope, probe the deep past and peer into the future.

[I intend] to make a philosophy like that of Aristotle, that is to say, to outline a theory so comprehensive that, for a long time to come, the entire work of human reason, in philosophy of every ...

Work means everything to us Americans. For centuries – since, say, 1650 – we’ve believed that it builds character (punctuality, initiative, honesty, self-discipline, and so forth). We’ve also believed ...

is a philosopher who teaches at the University of Cambridge. She recently became the first philosopher to perform at Latitude Festival, and writes regularly for Quartz. We live out our lives amid a ...

Every week at the office, you and your fellow employees have meetings to discuss progress on group projects and to divide tasks efficiently. Perhaps in the evening, you go home and cook dinner with ...

With the publication of Orientalism in 1978, Edward Said would become one of the most influential scholars of our era. The book transformed the study of the history of the modern world, as it offered ...

In 1706, an English woman visited her friend, Katherine. Katherine’s husband, Francis Atterbury, was a prominent politician and bishop. Upon hearing that Francis had just finished writing his sermon, ...

The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them ...

is assistant professor of Classics at Cornell University in Ithaca, US. She is working on a book titled Bad Readers and Ancient Rome. A 3rd-century Egyptian fragment of Sappho’s poetry from papyri ...

English subtitles for this video are available by clicking the CC button at the top right of the video player. Set in the windswept hills of rural Iran, the short documentary Sarnevesht (Daughter) ...