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

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

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 ...

Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe ...

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

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

is professor and chair of global international relations at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is the founding director of the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) and ...

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, ...

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 ...

is a postdoctoral fellow at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King’s College London. Her research explores obstetric violence in the home and the social ...

How can we build more humane zoos? Will it ever be ethical to build them at all? And what drives us to create zoos and natural history museums in the first place? Is it a curiosity about the world ...