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A conversation with the Dominican Friar and theology instructor.
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Dominican Friar Thomas Joseph White talks about two of his heroes: a medieval spiritual pioneer and a modern literary icon
Remaining silent is being complicit.
Over the weekend, Pete Buttigieg warned of the dangers of white national terrorism. Officials in El Paso agree.
It isn't surprising, but what's behind the straight-white-male hegemony?
Cheddar Man is now complete.
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Writer and Poet Clint Smith on the moment black lives began to officially matter, and the long history of pre-smartphone police brutality and state-sanctioned racism that preceded it.
To mark the centennial of Trappist monk, poet, theologian, and social activist Thomas Merton’s birth, a new exhibition focuses on his photography and how those photos are not just images to contemplate, but also ways of Zen contemplation.
A series of mysterious white features lurk at the bottom of one of its most massive craters. Here’s what they could be, and how we’ll find out! “One of the […]
When Pablo Picasso and other early modernists appropriated elements of so-called “primitive” African art for Cubist and proto-Cubist works such as 1907’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon they perpetrated a kind of […]
As Obama and Romney attack each other for waging “class warfare,” a new study from the Public Religion Research Institute shows how little anyone really knows about the largest block […]
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The rational dimension of the thought of Thomas Aquinas has been popular lately among theology students: Dominican Friar Thomas Joseph White tells Big Think why the medieval scholar is the […]
The movement to harness technology to democratize American democracy is gaining traction. Is that a good thing? During the heated presidential campaign of 2008, the CNN/YouTube debate proved so popular […]
The banality-of-evil thesis was a flashpoint for controversy.
NASA represents a full 50% of the world’s expenditures on space science & exploration. What should we expect from it? “This Administration has never really faced up to where we […]
In "We the People," Harvard historian Jill Lepore examines how the U.S. Constitution became unamendable and its implications for the health of the democracy.
5-MeO-DMT may offer a practical way to access and study consciousness in its most basic form.
As US science faces record cuts to funding, jobs, and facilities, these 10 quotes help remind us how science brings value to us all.
An atheist's case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.
Experts and Big Think writers recommend their favorite reads for diving deeper into the history and perspectives found in the Book of Books.
The platform is a digital Royal Society for today's greatest minds — and it could play an essential role in shaping the next civilization.
Long before the search for biosignatures, scientists imagined a cosmos teeming with intelligent life.
As democracy recedes and fascism rises in the USA and around the world in 2025, history provides a lesson in how science can fight fascism.
Whether we should tear down philosophy’s Berlin Wall and let East and West finally merge depends entirely on what we think philosophy is—and what it’s for.
How black and white is your thinking?
What if the barrier to a fulfilled life isn’t technology but culture?
The true story of the shot that "reverberated through England" when science collided head-on with religion.
The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it's time to overthrow that idea.
Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
For thousands of years, humanity had no idea how far away the stars were. In the 1600s, Newton, Huygens, and Hooke all claimed to get there.