In “Reproductive Wrongs,” the classicist Sarah Ruden traces efforts to exert political control over family planning back 2,000 years.

Today, the moral order throughout the world is in retreat, which is manifested in the rise of populism, authoritarianism, mis ...

The ancient Greeks famously defined man as a “social animal.” It was a profound observation, yet incomplete. Man is not merely a social being; he is also ...

Deep within the walls of Vatican City lies a repository of secrets, a library of power, and a documented history of the world seen through the eyes of one of its oldest and most influential ...

Atheism, in its broadest sense, is the disbelief in God or gods. Historically, atheism often existed as a philosophical or intellectual stance. In ancient Greece, Rome, and India, thinkers debated the ...

Based on ancient beliefs, sacred texts, and scientific hypotheses, the shiny yellow metal either is the dominion of the gods, the brilliant brainchild and deliberate handiwork of divine alchemy, or ...

Philosophers who were disciples of Socrates worried about the moral and political habits encouraged by maritime life and access to the sea. Trade, mobility, and empire shaped character and transformed ...

Excessive reliance on conscience can be problematic, but constraining and distorting judicial conscience would be far more ...

Exploring divine authority, political power, sectarian conflict, and moral leadership in a globalized, technologically advancing world.

Since television’s earliest days, storytellers have turned to time travel TV as one of the medium’s most flexible dramatic devices—a way to revisit history, imagine the future and test the ...

Turbocharged by social media, a long-debunked antisemitic conspiracy theory is back and helping fuel the sharp rise in anti-Jewish sentiment. What once lived on the fringes of the internet now widely ...

Exceptionalism is not confined to any one religion, culture, or political system. It is an anthropological constant.