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Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese recruited native New Guineans to their campaign.
There are issues with Kinsey's data, but his books revolutionized Americans' thinking about sex and sexuality.
Is true equality achievable — or even desirable? Go on a journey through the strange and unsettling "Land of Justice."
John Templeton Foundation
"The more I unleash myself from the tethers of domestication, the happier I feel."
Ideal models of family life have been broken by societal, technological, and cultural shifts — and we need to rethink our options.
You could send your potential paramour a perfume bottle, a cigar cutter, travel plans — or maybe some cocaine.
A primer on Judith Butler’s theory of gender and performativity.
Ignoring the legacy of William Shakespeare is difficult for any writer, let alone one as quintessentially English as "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien.
Over the past two decades, the proportion of those who identify as bisexual increased from 1.2% to 4.5%.
Since 2012, the amount of time that teenagers spend socializing in person has plummeted. Is it a coincidence that depression is more common?
To advance the gender-affirming healthcare of all those who transition, we must also understand the nature and causes of those who detransition.
The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.
Neuroscientists and artists alike are making the case that we could transform the world through psychedelics.
If we took the values and principles of cooperation to the next level, we could effectively tackle many crises.
Adolescents actively shape the transformation of religion and become the bearers of new religious patterns, worldviews, and values.
John Templeton Foundation
Some classic books, like Mark Twain’s "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," remain controversial to this day.
Worldwide, 15% of children are born out of wedlock, but the figure varies from less than 1% in places like China to 69% in Iceland.
About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.
The state of global democracy is relatively strong — but there are clear signs of recent erosion.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
How to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory.
If you lost your religion, it might be because the internet and social media are having a secularizing effect on American society.
Researchers found that the average penis increased in size from 4.8 inches in 1992 to 6 inches in 2021. But in some regions, they shrank.
Instead of walking a mile in someone’s shoes, try reading a chapter in their book.
Science will lead us to a universal morality and a cosmic religion.
It is estimated that as many as 488 million people worldwide were exposed to dangerously long working hours in 2016.
If comedies do get made today, they usually bypass the big screen and go straight to streaming platforms.
These five great books should prompt us to work on what needs fixing the most in the world: ourselves.