On call with the volunteers offering humanitarian aid to thousands of migrants from the Global South trying to enter into ...

I once exalted in the extraordinary. But as I’ve learned from Virginia Woolf, indelible beauty is also found in the everyday ...

Life is often experienced as a demanding, ongoing story. But with a little practice, a new space opens for peaceful presence ...

A hero or a murderer? Stalin’s legacy is still a contentious issue in his birthplace, seven decades after his death ...

Many hope that AI will discover ethical truths. But as Gödel shows, deciding what is right will always be our burden ...

With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation ...

In this layered portrait, an artist reflects on the complex reality of living with the distressing voice in her head ...

Can colour be understood geometrically? If so, what’s the best way to map it out, capturing the variables of hue, brightness and saturation? These questions have deep implications for art, physics and ...

Ascend steep cliffs to discover Ethiopia’s ancient churches carved into rock, still serving as places of worship today ...

When Nietzsche used the tools of philology to explore the nature of morality, he became a ‘philosopher of the future’ ...