Growing up in countercultural California, ‘enlightenment’ had real glamour. But decades of practice have changed my mind ...

The systems that make people unfree are deeply intertwined. This prison abolitionist dares to envision real alternatives ...

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Life is complicated. In Cameroon, initiated diviners read the messages of spiders to untangle possible futures ...

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

The powerful short documentary Blue Room observes individuals incarcerated in two prisons in the Pacific Northwest as they participate in an experimental programme that allows them to take in tranquil ...

Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 ...