For the ancients, understanding was an end in itself. For the moderns, it became a means to change the world.

Jonas Kaufmann will no longer sing at London’s Royal Opera House — because, of all things, the pay is too low. “I don’t know ...

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In the summer of 2003, I was reading Gail Omvedt’s Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste, which had just been ...

THIS clear and well-reasoned introduction starts from the classical problem of modern philosophical thought—sense perception and the knowledge we take to be based upon it. For the scientifically ...

At the age of 80, the acclaimed professor of politics and gay rights activist’s essays are an account of the changing times.

This is a tale of two memoirs by two senators. To borrow further from Charles Dickens, they illustrate why we live in “the ...

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