The intersections of friendship, love, beauty, and war remain central issues in the fields of political philosophy and the humanities, profoundly ...

Contemporary states operate in a state of permanent equilibrium between stability and chaos. The pursuit of order and ...

The day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, commentators repeated a familiar refrain: “This isn’t who we are as Americans.” Others ...

Today, we’re joined by Dr. Shu Yang, a pioneering materials scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and one of National Geographic’s Extraordinary Changemakers. From elephant skin to snail mucus, ...

The Republican-controlled Congress recently passed a $9 billion rescission law, canceling a significant chunk of foreign aid spending and about $1 billion for public broadcasting. Beyond disliking ...

Every year for the past 25 years, I have taught an intermediate-level undergraduate course at Indiana University Bloomington called The Declaration of Independence and the Meaning of American ...

That contradiction has caused consternation among experts in the field. Plain writes that, notwithstanding 55 separate carbon dating tests of the footprints and surrounding materials, the scholars’ ...

Ecology and faith seem to be seeing eye to eye more often these days as authors blend their interest in climate, flora, fauna, and more in new books that also highlight the role God or a higher power ...

ARLINGTON, VA; April 1, 2025— This Spring and early Summer, PBS will celebrate science and nature programming with dramatic stories, transformative journeys, explorative investigations, and more. From ...

Political mandates are myths of the mind crafted by those who claim that they have them. Assertions of mandates are also powerful recipes for political disaster and overreach. This is the lesson ...

This is the second post in a series. Read the first post here. Social scientists today assume that left-right (or, in the U.S., liberal-conservative) political orientation, like virtually every other ...