Greek epic poetry often uses mothers and wives to humanize its heroes, reminding listeners of the meaning of sacrifice.
Theosophy and its founders had an outsize impact on Americans’ ideas about spirituality and Asian religions.
As a society, everyone is motivated to regulate AI development. For individual companies, though, the opposite is true.
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Immanuel Kant’s ideas about respect are still important today, in a world where social media and echo chambers make manipulation…
Rather than protecting some of the world’s most vulnerable children, many of Africa’s orphanages are exploiting them.
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Athens was deeply polarized over big-picture questions, and Socrates was never hesitant to question both sides’ assumptions…
Ten years after the collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, the garment industry’s deadliest disaster, reforms are incomplete.…
Investigating supernatural claims is a delicate task for the church, and Catholic leaders rarely label them as authentic.
Lithium extraction in Bolivia poses more than environmental questions: It illustrates how notions about ‘raw materials’…
Political situations in both Israel and the US could be changing prior patterns with these donations, which fund hospitals,…
The South China Sea is of strategic and economic importance to Beijing and the US, setting up a potential power struggle…
Generative AI is designed to produce the unforeseen, but that doesn’t mean developers can’t predict the types of social…
Using public funds to support students at private religious schools is one thing, but establishing faith-based institutions…
Effective altruism, often called ‘EA,’ is closely linked to utilitarian philosophy and calls for donors to carefully…
Arab American Heritage Month is becoming more well-known, but the simple words ‘Arab American’ encompass a wide array…
Yom HaShoah, which falls on April 17-18, 2023, pointedly commemorates Jewish resistance to the Nazis.