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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
Universal basic income can secure basic independence for citizens, something which modern states have failed to do, argues author Louise Haagh.
This map of Hutterite colonies in North America says something about religion and evolution — and more precisely, speciation.
The modern antiracist movement is harming the very people it claims to help, according to the linguist John McWhorter.
The majority of the matter in our Universe isn't made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?
The insurmountable contrasts between their visions help explain Russia’s stunted development and hint at its destructive future.
We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: It has a tail of its own.
Are we really only a moment away from "The Singularity," a technological epoch that will usher in a new era in human evolution?
Many still cling to the idea that we live in a deterministic Universe, despite the nature of quantum physics. Now, the "least spooky" interpretation no longer works.
The decades-long conflict is best understood not through secondhand accounts of historians, but the primary accounts of people who actually experienced it.
To overcome burnout, we need to change how we think about the relationship between dignity and work, argues Jonathan Malesic.
Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.
By taking Satan out of the religious context, storytellers explored the nature of sin in new ways.
Fittingly, the skull was found in the Rising Star cave of South Africa, itself located at a site known to UNESCO as the Cradle of Mankind.
From textiles and transportation to chemicals and microchips, a group of researchers proposes a new way to measure the impact of innovation.
The German thinker wrote both treatises and songs. He approached each form of expression with the same level of interest.
Many have argued that free will is an illusion, but science does not support that.
Virgin birth – which involves the development of an unfertilised egg – has preoccupied humans for aeons. And although it can’t happen in mammals, it does seem to be possible in […]
Based on the atoms that they're made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here's why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
Even some philosophers don’t think highly of philosophy, but we need it now more than ever.