While most are concerned about the mayor-elect’s politics, his spiritual underpinnings illuminate the source of his greatest strengths—as well as his potential weaknesses.

In the late Zygmunt Bauman’s 2000 book, “Liquid Modernity,” the British sociologist showed how modernity has swept us into an unstoppable, destabilizing liquid state of change. According to Bauman, ...

In the years since Lowery’s call for clarity, a divide has emerged on the left over the correct moral response to Trump’s political dominance. On one side are the idealists who prioritize ...

It's clear that large language models (LLMs) are smart—but moral, too? A recent paper suggests that these models can provide moral guidance that surpasses even expert human ethicists. This development ...

NPR described how IVF is “complicating Republicans’ abortion messaging,” while The Guardian reported that the largest Protestant denomination in the United States recently condemned IVF as a “win for ...

Every Philosophy 101 student knows the dilemma. If given the chance to kill Adolf Hitler years before his tyrannical ambitions unleashed death and destruction, would you be willing to pull the trigger ...

Artificial intelligence might not seem like an obvious focus for a new pope taking over the world’s largest Christian church. AI is developing faster than most people can keep track. The church ...

It is one of the most inspiring photographs in modern history, one that reveals the worst and best of human nature with a click of a camera shutter. It is a black-and-white image of a crowd of workers ...

People with extreme ideology don’t care anymore about hiding their excesses or their agendas. It’s all out there online or on ...

This effort grew into KadhaiNeram (Storytime), a free, ad-free Tamil kids’ podcast that now boasts over 730 episodes, five ...