Meera Nanda analyses how Hindutva and postcolonial theory undermine rationalism and science, with its effects showing on ...

Nietzsche greatly admired Greek philosophy, which significantly influenced his ideas about life and human nature.

In modern times, only the Madrassas are the primary institutions that have upheld the teaching and study of Hadith. This tradition of promoting the knowledge of Hadith substantially benefitted Muslim ...

The current MAGA evangelical attacks on science threaten to make America less safe, less healthy and much dumber.

Although the origins of modern terrorism go back to the French Reign of Terror in 1700s and could therefore be considered as a product of Western modernity, its 20th century incarnation may well be ...

Matthieu Ricard is known as the “ world’s happiest man .” When he lay down in an MRI scanner so scientists could look at his ...

The first ancient Greek colonies were established as early as the 8th century BC, while wide colonization continued through ...

An evident running theme is that the human capacity for imagination is what makes civilization possible. Boorstin writes: “The Creator, unlike the Discoverer, does not find new lands, but makes new ...

I never cared much about swords, but the first time I held one in class, it felt thrilling, empowering—until I had to fight ...

Dutch philosopher Rob Wijnberg believes that truth has always been relative, long before the rise of Donald Trump. In an ...

In the 1920s, an American professor founded the Floating University to develop in its students ‘the ability to think in world ...