A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

For people with chronic illnesses, the relief and recognition of online communities can set up a toxic psychological trap ...

All our laws and rules to protect coral reefs now stand in the way of radical action to save them from heat death ...

Visually striking and intricately crafted, the traditional armour and weaponry of the Kiribati islands in the Pacific Ocean ...

is associate professor of history at the University of Georgia. She is the author of The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom (2014) and her latest book, Legions of Pigs in the Early ...

is the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and professor of public policy at the Price School, University of Southern California. Her latest book is The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of ...

Under capitalism, the argument goes, it’s every man for himself. Through the relentless pursuit of self-interest, everyone benefits, as if an invisible hand were guiding each of us toward the common ...

As Hannah Arendt and her husband Heinrich Blücher waited in Montauban, France in the summer of 1940 to receive emergency exit papers they did not give into anxiety or despair. They found bicycles and ...

is political philosopher at the University of California, Davis. He is currently working on his fifth book, called The Unbearable Resilience of Illiberalism. He lives in Sacramento. But to understand ...

A documentary on the patient labour of building a home away from home and the courage it takes to open oneself to new bonds ...

We could start with birds, or we could start with Greeks. Each option has advantages. Let’s flip a coin. Heads and it’s the Greeks, tails and it’s the birds. Tails. In the 1970s, a young American ...

A typical university course in the history of philosophy surveys the great thinkers of Western civilisation as a stately procession from Plato to Aristotle to Descartes to Kant to Hegel to Nietzsche.