“The mountains would become in my life the symbol — and solution — of this conflict between the spirit and the senses, making straight the way to an understanding of purpose in life’s stumblings,” ...

Dr Hannah Gould on eco-funerals, being ‘the death person’ and the one thing everyone should know before they die ...

Author Michael Simon Baker examines the common moral principles found across the world’s major religions and philosophical traditions. NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES, March 11, 2026 ...

Certain colonial-era texts function less as scholarly treatises and more as intellectual demolition charges, forever altering the landscape they sought to merely survey.

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

Law Faculty in the early 2000s, a distinct memory I have is that of a classroom overflowing with students, waiting f ...

Professor Adam Mendelsohn to deliver inaugural lecture exploring demographic shifts and the intersection of identity and politics in a changing national landscape. The question of minority identity ...

The cemetery, therefore, is not a foreign intrusion into Harar’s history. It is a record of Harar’s openness—a testament to the city’s role as a place of encounter. It does not diminish Harari ...

The Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum houses over 9,000 nutcrackers in one location, which is either the best idea anyone’s ever had or evidence that collecting can get seriously out of hand. Either way, ...

A Well-Intentioned Tribute, But… Did ‘Bhoot Bangla’s ‘Ram Ji Aake Bhala Karenge Do Justice To Satyajit Ray? Bangalis often ...

Photo courtesy of Vox Today is International Women’s Day Three hundred years ago, a highly placed public person made an ...

Rooted in the Buddhist teaching of the bardo − states of ‘in-between’ − the text offers a way to understand death, life and ...