René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 ...

Cinematic shots of Californian farmland frame the stories of its immigrant workers, who live between precarity and hope ...

A cherished local tradition keeps memories of the departed alight in this tiny village on England’s southwest coast ...

Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them ...

The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed ...

An engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe ...

Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music ...

When you’re living in Beirut and violence keeps spilling into your life, where do you go to find strength? Try yoga ...

Settler colonialism Displacing and destroying peoples by colonisation is not just a historical Western evil but a global and contemporary one ...

To solve these mysteries, cosmologists must make guesses about events that are absurdly remote from us. Guth’s theory of inflation is one such guess. It tells us that our Universe expanded, ...