For his new book, “The Ghost Lab,” Matt Hongoltz-Hetling spent time with paranormal investigators to understand their relationship with science and society.

“The primary way that people make friends is through institutions."

Historian Timothy Snyder talks with Big Think about how true liberty requires both negative and positive freedoms.

The annual rite of passage has always been more about the ambivalence of adults than the amusement of children.

There is a cross-country correlation between democracy and health. Is there good evidence to suggest it is causal?

About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.

One of the fundamental questions for those studying and advocating progress is around understanding what variables can move the needle for the type of progress that you might want to see in the world. It's a key focus of the "progress studies" discipline and a question that has received increased attention from academics and public intellectuals in recent years.

Belief is not just about God or ghosts.

Is hope more realistic than despair? Aquinas thinks so.

Society incorrectly blamed a "population bomb” for problems that had other causes. A wrong diagnosis produces ineffective solutions.