In a time when we dislike and distrust our politicians, why can’t we get more popular leaders like Kim Jong Un and Bashar al-Assad?
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He is only out-sold by William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.
The problem with today’s AI isn’t it thinking for itself; it’s the tech telling humans whatever we want to hear.
Moments of social anxiety around truth tend to be accompanied by similar “fool the eye” pop culture phenomena.
A philosophy of birth can offset the prevailing narrative around extinction and mortality.
He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
Searching for truth in unorthodox ways can be a valuable exercise. But Anatoly Fomenko’s alternate world history is just plain weird.
Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
We all spend way too much time worrying what other people think of us — it’s time to cut loose.
Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
Truth needs us to define the rules, grammar, and criteria for true statements. But can we do this within language itself?
People believe that slow and deliberative thinking is inherently superior to fast and intuitive thinking. The truth is more complicated.
Every successful leader can mine golden knowledge from the works of the Bard.
Radical Emotional Acceptance calls on you to celebrate all of life’s emotions — even the negative ones.
Autocrats like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin fear democracy, yet go to great lengths to present themselves as democratic leaders.
It is impossible for science to arrive at ultimate truths, but functional truths are good enough.
The language you speak plays an important role in how you evaluate truth.
“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed,” advised Stoic philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. He had a point.
Humiliating powerful people was not a key to success.
Research suggests parenthood helps couples tune into each other’s minds and emotional states.
In “The History of Western Philosophy,” Bertrand Russell made it clear whose thinking he admired — and whose thinking he didn’t.
“Who is the aggressor?” That depends on which of these maps you believe.
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.
Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.
If you feel like you’re missing out on something bigger, you might be feeling saṃvega.
The researchers rebuked writers, scholars, and public figures for lazily perpetuating the notion of widespread gender bias in academic science.
Scientists believe they have the answer, but philosophers prove them wrong.