Donald J. Robertson's 'How to Think Like Socrates' is easier than slogging through Plato and multiple volumes of ancient ...

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Hal Lindsey, a onetime Mississippi Delta tugboat captain who became a campus preacher and improbably vaulted to fame and ...

Jean-Léon Gérôme pioneered Orientalism in art in a way that can still be felt—and seen—today. Museum show in Doha traces that ...

Anti-incumbency fervor, populist rage and elite disconnection — all facets of the same global democratic crisis ...

Remarkably, there are more than 20,000 restaurants in Istanbul, ranging from arty Michelin-starred stalwarts, to basic cafes ...

If your Naomi be Klein, you’re doing just fine. If your Naomi be Wolf, oh buddy, big oof.’ It’s a rhyme that went viral on social media as the two public intellectuals found themselves frequently ...

The news that McCarthy groomed a teenage girl has shocked the literary world – and revealed the enormous impact she had on ...

In order to reframe the questions that arise from his encounter with the Gitanjali, Yeats does subtly undermine the dichotomy ...

Education should promote deep inquiry and individual autonomy — but often, it has been used as a vehicle for indoctrination.

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A Personal Theological Essay,” in which Eisen describes what he believes about a God whom he acknowledges to be elusive, if ...