It runs deeply through the Western outlook, hailed and condemned in equal measures. For a corrective, look to Confucius ...

Gerrard Winstanley led a small band of radicals whose vision of justice encompassed the globe and continues to inspire ...

Quaker, conscientious objector, prison reformer – these are just some of the many lives of the scientist Kathleen Lonsdale ...

Smallpox went from a feared killer to a fading memory. Its eradication is one of humanity’s greatest collective triumphs ...

An optical poem featuring audio of W H Auden’s ode to trees paired with art from the Met and outdoor footage of New York state ...

is full professor and director of the theoretical philosophy group and the research group on neuroethics/neurophilosophy at the department of philosophy at the ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?