A classic critique shows how creationists’ calls for “equal time” in classrooms blurred the line between legitimate scientific debate and intellectual imposture.
Philip Kitcher | Sep 2
Once America’s great hope, innovation culture eventually met its fiercest critics.
Matthew Wisnioski | Aug 22
The interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums.
Samuel Jay Keyser | Aug 19
How evolution wired us to act against our own best interests.
Telmo Pievani | Aug 12
Eye makers for millennia have been trying to re-create the expressionist power of the human body’s most complex and emotionally meaningful visible organ.
Dan Roche | Aug 5
Decades of global surveys point to a single, consistent foundation of well-being: our relationships.
Tim Lomas | Jul 31
Owen Flanagan explores how Buddhism reconciles meaning and science — without a creator, a soul, or supernatural scaffolding.
Owen Flanagan | Jul 28
What looks like minimalism in Kiarostami is something else entirely: a method for holding the unseen in view.
Joan Copjec | Jul 25
If there is no clear evidence of brain abnormalities in psychopathic persons, why do so many scientists keep portraying psychopathy as a neurodevelopmental disorder?
Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen | Jul 22
The evolutionary story behind meat consumption is more complicated — and less convincing — than it sounds.
Gidon Eshel | Jul 17
