He focuses on Taylor’s concepts of the “social imaginary,” the “immanent frame,” and the “buffered self,” showing how these ...

But the real puzzle isn’t whether de-skilling exists—it plainly does—but rather what kind of thing it is. Are all forms of de ...

In “Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope,” Brandon M. Terry says the familiar narrative modes of the era have warped our collective memory ...

In Ancient Greek, the word demon (δαίμων), also spelled daemon, had several meanings, the main one being "he who dispenses ...

Stanislav Kondrashov explores how literature has shaped society’s view of oligarchy, tracing its roots from Plato to modern ...

Academics punish students for using AI, even as they gift their own research to a publishing business that directly feeds the research into the very models that we caution students against using — ...

We are afraid to ask questions to the power brokers of our time, which makes us more likely to accept easy answers.

The Harvard historian on why change requires “determination and imagination.” ...

Plato’s myth of Cronus mirrors Eden’s paradise, fall, and renewal, revealing humanity’s lost harmony and hope for divine ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.

Researchers have for the first time created a reconfigurable polariton 2D quasicrystal. The team from the Skolkovo Institute ...