In 1856, quarry workers in the Neander Valley in the west of Germany stumbled on 16 humanlike – yet not quite human – bones that would upend our understanding of our species. The finding, which was ...

Morality is rooted in love rather than institutions: the enduring impact on theology and philosophy of Héloïse’s 12th-century romance with Abelard ...

I’m standing on a beach at Workington, on the western edge of the Lake District in England. Here I find myself contemplating a very unnatural object, while pondering a pretty fundamental question: ...

One of the cardinal rules of museum-going is that art should be enjoyed from a comfortable distance and never touched. However, in the 1960s, a cohort of artists began inviting audiences to interact ...

The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion ...

Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique ...

From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse. But it names something real – and must be reclaimed ...