A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist ideas of freedom, community and radical ...

Moral panics about erotica have coursed through the country’s history. Why do so many Americans think of porn as harm?

The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But what really happened is far more interesting ...

It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine ...

Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...

In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling: Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, ...

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows ...

is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Athens in Greece. She is the author of Chemistry’s Metaphysics (2024).

is the Anne and George L Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee ...

Noah never reckoned with trinomials. Modern Creationists, grasping for footholds in the post-Darwinian world, maintain that Noah took 1,398 kinds of animal aboard his Ark, as the floodwaters gathered ...