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 ...

The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But what really happened is far more interesting ...

Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...

It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine ...

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

More concerned with the action itself than with the theory behind it,’ Torres was relieved of his orders in 1965, after which ...

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

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

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 ...