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In the early hours of 24 February 2022, Russian forces attacked Ukraine. The brutality of the Russian assault has horrified the world. But Russians...

On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, giving rise to the deadliest conflict on European soil since the Second Worl...

On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, giving rise to the deadliest conflict on European soil since the Second Worl...

For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers – nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoev...

For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoev...

As a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated. Love is most often associated with happine...

As a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated. Love is most often associated with happine...

“Everything is sad,” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attribut...

“Everything is sad,” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attribut...

This is an ode to the lost golden age of the pinball machine. These vivid, flashing portals of entertainment were mainstays of nearly every bar, pu...

This is an ode to the lost golden age of the pinball machine. These vivid, flashing portals of entertainment were mainstays of nearly every bar, pu...

"A whole man, made of all men, worth all of them, and any one of them worth him." This was how Jean-Paul Sartre characterized himself at the end of...

Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism,...

Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism,...

This new book by two leading economists is a far-reaching analysis of the role and organization of the financial system in the aftermath of the eco...

This new book by two leading economists is a far-reaching analysis of the role and organization of the financial system in the aftermath of the eco...

This timely and engaging book challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States. The common view holds that media crave ...

This timely and engaging book challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States. The common view holds that media crave ...

Throughout the world, schizophrenia is a diagnosis now in decline, representing a radical shift in our historical and medical understanding of madn...

Throughout the world, schizophrenia is a diagnosis now in decline, representing a radical shift in our historical and medical understanding of madn...

Science and technology produce a wide range of benefits in society but they also create harm, both of which are unequally distributed across social...

Science and technology produce a wide range of benefits in society but they also create harm, both of which are unequally distributed across social...

The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures....

Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now...