It does sometimes feel like there is a lot less offensive comedy being broadcast, for example by the BBC, than there used to be. This is not, however, because of cancel culture. The reduction in ...

In psychology, the term “dialectics” has to do with holding two contradictory ideas at once. The concept helps better explain the complexities of life when there’s truth in two opposing views. As New ...

Chinese chairman Mao Zedong swimming in the Yangtze river in Wuhan, China, July 29, 1966. (Hou Bo / Public domain via Wikimedia Commons) Dialectical Republicanism is another face of Karl Marx’s ...

In May 1941, Kurt Vonnegut was an opinion columnist for The Sun. Under Well All Right, a column he shared with others, he wrote, “Sometimes it isn’t as easy as it might seem, this business of ...

A new study by UCLA and Kaiser Permanente Northwest's Center for Health Research demonstrates a health care approach matching treatment intensity to individual risk levels can significantly reduce ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts to collect Perseverance rover samples that could contain evidence of alien ...

The decade or so since the financial crisis of 2008 has seen a resurgence of interest in what nineteenth-century thinkers would have called “the social question,” backpedaling somewhat from the ...

The amount of noise The Row’s annual sample sale generated last weekend was perhaps antithetical to the brand’s ultimate quiet luxury status. But what else could be expected? The brand’s legions of ...

Atul and Glenn note that for five centuries, Europe was the unrivaled center of global progress — the proverbial “cock of the walk.” The Renaissance and Reformation created a civilization of reason, ...