In the debate between home gyms and boutique fitness studios, read one writer's take on why home gyms are just as good — if ...

The novelist Julian Barnes doubts that we can ever really overcome our fixed beliefs. He should keep an open mind.

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Though long regarded as a basic feature of education, homework has drawn both compliments and criticism for its part in student learning. Historically, it supported individual study, strengthened ...

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Columbia University’s Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak receives the prestigious Holberg Prize for groundbreaking work in ...

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Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz was an unusually inventive Marxist theoretician of the multiethnic imperial context in which he ...

Homo sapiens: freely-willed choices, or inherent immutable natural drives? “We haven’t changed, since ancient times.”  Mark ...

Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, announced Feb. 5 that he’s no longer an atheist but has become a Christian.