I once exalted in the extraordinary. But as I’ve learned from Virginia Woolf, indelible beauty is also found in the everyday ...

With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation ...

Can colour be understood geometrically? If so, what’s the best way to map it out, capturing the variables of hue, brightness and saturation? These questions have deep implications for art, physics and ...

In this layered portrait, an artist reflects on the complex reality of living with the distressing voice in her head ...

A hero or a murderer? Stalin’s legacy is still a contentious issue in his birthplace, seven decades after his death ...

Many hope that AI will discover ethical truths. But as Gödel shows, deciding what is right will always be our burden ...

Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides ...

Life is often experienced as a demanding, ongoing story. But with a little practice, a new space opens for peaceful presence ...

Ascend steep cliffs to discover Ethiopia’s ancient churches carved into rock, still serving as places of worship today ...

In 1998, Indonesia was deep in crisis. With the country reeling from soaring inflation, mass unemployment and mounting unrest, tensions erupted into protests and riots that brought an end to the three ...

In Border Conversations, the German filmmaker Jonathan Brunner embeds with a group of humanitarian volunteers in Poland as they respond to distress messages from migrants attempting to cross into ...

Nietzsche shows us how to embrace our connection with nature – without denying its essential conflict, strife and suffering ...