Like billions of people, I use caffeine. But there is a glaring double standard in the drugs we stigmatise or celebrate ...

Many think the answer is obvious: we ought to cut immoral people out of our lives. But that isn’t necessarily the best option ...

Moved by mystical visions and the French Revolution, William Blake crafted a radical blueprint for living with purpose ...

On a crisp, clear day in January about four years ago, my children and I joined a few thousand Rhode Islanders in a protest march against a recent change in law that restricted the number of refugees ...

People living in Western nations today can expect to live a considerably longer life, on average, than 100 years or so ago. The dramatically shorter average life expectancies of the past were skewed ...

Ever feel like a word or person you just learned about has been showing up repeatedly? There’s a term for that ...

Your demise is inevitable. I hope that doesn’t come as too much of a shock. I agree that the brevity of human existence is bothersome. Thankfully, for most of us, this frightful fact usually hovers ...

Aphantasia veils the past and the future from the mind’s eye. That can be a gift to philosophers like Derek Parfit and me There’s an early memory from my childhood, representative of its peak ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...

The early Chinese philosophers knew that a healthy mind comes from a harmonious community, not a matter for individuals alone Mental illness is often thought to be a matter of individual disorder.

A few years before he died in exile from Nazism, the Austrian novelist Robert Musil delivered a lecture in Vienna, ‘On Stupidity’ (1937). At its heart was the idea that stupidity was not mere ...

Studies of longterm friends offer surprising insights as to whether friends who are more or less alike tend to endure Bring to mind the friendships in your life: what do you think makes some of them ...