Why Intellectual Humility Isn’t Always a Virtue
Intellectual humility has recently been hailed as the key to thinking well. The story of Barbara McClintock proves otherwise.
Podcast: War in the Middle East, Again
Shadi Hamid and Damir Marusic at Wisdom of the Crowds: “War, or something resembling war,…
The Surprising Psychology Behind Your Urge to Break the Rules
Paul Bloom on TED: We all experience it: that desire to do something wrong just…
The Surprising Origins and Politics of Equality
Capital in the Twenty-First Century became a surprise bestseller, and inequality became a signature concern of the new century.
Researchers are Trying to Find Out: Could We Cool the Planet Using Sea Salt?
Quico Toro: When scientists bring up unconventional new ways of managing that risk, we’re told we mustn’t even talk about them.
Poem: The Pleasures of Age
by Thomas Dorsett: Nothing matters; that’s why I still work. Poems none read, translations none want; I’m prodigious as Nature is with her seeds.
The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
Rutland was a British naval hero in the First World War, worked for the Japanese Navy in the years between the wars…
The Value of Our Values
When Nietzsche used the tools of philology to explore the nature of morality, he became a ‘philosopher of the future’.
A Dated Conspiracy Theory Rises Again
by Jeroen van Baar at 3 Quarks Daily: In the chart-topping podcast The Rest is…
Poem: October By Robert Frost
O hushed October morning mild,Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;Tomorrow’s wind, if it be…
Unveiling Turkey’s Karahan Tepe: Evidence of a Prehistoric Extraterrestrial Civilization?
by Huynh Mai: Deep iп the heart of soυtheasterп Tυrkey lies aп archaeological site that…
Why Palestine and Kashmir Have Few Similarities
by Jawed Naqvi in Dawn: PALESTINE and Kashmir have too readily been likened to each…