This article originally appeared on Capital & Main. In Alissa Quart’s new book Bootstrapped — Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream, the author argues that the ideology of American ...

Editor's Note: This essay appeared in Cognoscenti's newsletter of ideas and opinions, delivered weekly on Sundays. To become a subscriber, sign up here. In the fall of 2024, one of the biggest ...

The following text is inspired by the thoughts of Pierre Le Coz, philosopher, specialist in ethics The question that runs through Pierre Le Coz is that of the contradictions between "being together" ...

To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units. More than half a billion years ...

The pandemic has been one long lesson in human adaptability. (Zoom theater anyone?) It has also been a revealer of ugly truths. In the United States, COVID-19 has put front and center a host of ...

Individual rights are the bedrock of a free society. In a liberal democracy, individuals have the moral right to make their own choices free from arbitrary intrusion – subject to the constraint that ...

Is the recent flagrant disregard for traffic laws a sign of growing resentment of communal values? Source: Dennis M. Clausen Are people running red lights, ignoring stop signs, and weaving recklessly ...

My research required forays into two distinct areas of scholarly literature. First, I examined existing literature providing different analyses of Star Wars as a cultural myth and examining its place ...