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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.
Like Halloween and Christmas, today’s Easter traditions are a blend of Christian and non-Christian influences.
Twenty-five years after the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland is still resisting the culture of violence.
Donkeys and palm leaves are both associated with Christianity’s Palm Sunday – but their symbolism couldn’t be more…
The Passover Seder has tradition and remembrance at its core, but has also evolved throughout the centuries in Jewish communities…
Religious pluralism and social justice were at the core of King’s campaigns – a vision shaped by influences as diverse…