Times are changing fast enough that it’s hard to know where to start unspooling the question of modern identity. Questions […]

The south of England doesn’t get particularly cold in winter, but temperatures do sometimes lurk below freezing for a few […]

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“Believe me, wise men don’t say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow’s life is too late; live today.” Martial […]

Interviewee: Gregg D. Caruso Interviewer: Zan Boag   Zan Boag: Before we delve into your ideas about free will, I […]

There were scripts I learned very early while growing up in an African-American community in the urban South. In the […]

By Roy Scranton. You can walk to the beach from where we are staying. It’s a long peel of dun-coloured […]

By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore A man walks into a mall. His eyes scan the crowds. Finally, he spots what he’s looking […]

By Allison Arieff Consider this fact of modern life: nearly all of the technological products that we buy and use […]

By Antonia Case   “Can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and […]

By Ai Weiwei Many of the problems in the world today, when one reflects upon them, call for an answer […]

In the midst of a nuclear war, an evacuation plane from England crash lands on a deserted, paradisiacal island in […]

In the early 1980s, a new idea began to find its way from philosophy of history and into the raging […]

It’s an ancient human law and it makes us do extraordinary things. Author Tom Wolfe calls it serial immortality; it’s […]

By Russell Blackford If our minds are essentially what happens when our brains perform certain kinds of complex computations, then […]

“Know thyself,” said the philosophers. No problem, said the rest of us. Self-help, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, inner self, outer self – […]

You are not who you think you are. Philosophers, from the Buddha to David Hume to Derek Parfit, have been […]

Love yourself. Believe in yourself. And your dreams will come true. A few decades ago, psychologists began documenting the appearance […]