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So I want to call your attention to a fine article by Jonathan Marks in Inside Higher Ed, the daily online newspaper of higher education. Marks writes at a level […]
As I’ve written before, I’m a skeptical of claims, like Jonathan Gottschall’s, about the power of stories to make us better people. Adam Gopnik of The New Yorkeris skeptical too. […]
I was all set to turn in for the night, when I came across this piece about Jonathan Shainin. I was lucky enough to write two pieces that Jonathan commissioned […]
The Jewish community in Britain represents only one-half of one percent of the population, but Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks believes it need not have a commensurate voice in the “human […]
An atheist's case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.
What are we supposed to do when experts look at the same data yet reach starkly different conclusions?
Bob Dylan gave us the paradoxical gem "there's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all." He had a point.
A proponent of panpsychism argues moral truth is inherent in consciousness.
Impossible standards and poor self-understanding are making us miserable.
"You gotta know when to fold 'em."
It’s called the “hipster effect,” and a study from Brandeis University mathematician Jonathan Touboul explains how it happens.
People think that unhappiness causes our minds to wander, but what if the causation goes the other way?
To overcome burnout, we need to change how we think about the relationship between dignity and work, argues Jonathan Malesic.
Awe makes us feel smaller but also more connected to life and each other.
A five-year-old reading a picture book in her pillow fort. A college student and his friends at the midnight matinee. A ninety-year-old watching her soaps. What do they have in […]
Synchronous movement seems to help us form cohesive groups by shifting our thinking from "me" to "we."
Isolation and empathy are by no means mutually exclusive.
So why should we keep using them?
Autism is a widely misunderstood condition surrounded by falsehoods, half-truths, and cultural assumptions.
Despite being free to users, Facebook seems to have a monopoly on our speech, our data, and our lives.
Technology that enables telemedicine is set to change the medical field for patients, doctors, and investors.
Northwell Health
Americans say we value free speech, but recent surveys suggest we love the ideal more than practice, a division that will harm more than it protects.
Charles Koch Foundation
As enjoyable as it is to be a couch potato, humans were built to run.
As more intellectuals seek a common ground between the left-right divide, these ten books offer insights on how to navigate challenging topics.
Western conventional wisdom about animal ethics is that killing an animal is not the problem; the problem is making the animal suffer.
Because intelligence is not the same thing as rationality.
Mathematicians are working to combat partisan gerrymandering.
Chinese philosophers have suggested “You… should not think of yourself as a single, unified being.” The Path, a book by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh, can explain (with help from Plato, Kant, Eden, Hume, Confucius, Kahnenman...).
What secrets did Shakespeare take to his grave 400 years ago? Are the plays the thing to unlock the mysteries of literature’s king?
Why Banksy's dystopian vision of the future might be the kind of shock we need to realize the problems humanity faces.