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

Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

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

Cinematic shots of Californian farmland frame the stories of its immigrant workers, who live between precarity and hope ...

How the ideas circulating among one noblewoman’s coterie in 16th-century Dubrovnik anticipated modern feminist thought ...

A cherished local tradition keeps memories of the departed alight in this tiny village on England’s southwest coast ...

The greatest of the United States’ homegrown religions – greater than Jehovah’s Witnesses, greater than the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, greater even than Scientology – is the religion ...

Let’s start by observing that, mercifully, not all silences are awkward. Most of the time, even silence in the company of others is not awkward. I’m currently sitting in a busy coffee shop. Animated ...