In “Reproductive Wrongs,” the classicist Sarah Ruden traces efforts to exert political control over family planning back 2,000 years.
Just like in the modern world, people in ancient times wanted to know how to live a long and healthy life. Greeks and Romans ...
Philosopher and writer Albert Camus defined gangster morality as ‘an inexhaustible round of triumph and revenge, defeat and resentment’. Sound familiar?
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 ...
Exceptionalism is not confined to any one religion, culture, or political system. It is an anthropological constant.
Hannah Feuer joined the Forward as a general assignment reporter in May 2025 after two years as a culture reporter at Seven ...
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 ...
David McGarry reflects on Cicero’s hierarchy of values and insights about human nature with a view to understanding virtuous ...
Was Plato a sage, spiritual teacher, or prophet whose philosophy echoed Christian ideas centuries before Christ?
If large-scale destruction of cultural heritage does not trigger strong institutional consequences, what does that mean for ...
One could be forgiven for coming away from Leighton Woodhouse’s “Donald Trump, Pagan King” op-ed in the New York Times with ...