Across countries and age groups, more and more people describe the same thing: broken sleep, shrinking focus, a mind that loops around money, work, health, children, the future. They feel more tired without doing less.... Read More

For much of human history, awe had a name, and that name was God. Awe lived in temples and cathedrals, in thunder interpreted as divine speech, in the hush that fell over a congregation when... Read More

In a world increasingly mediated by screens and algorithms, human interaction has shifted from physical spaces to digital ones. Social media platforms, online forums and collaborative spaces offer unprecedented opportunities for connection, learning and civic... Read More

A moral rot has been spreading through the politics of our cities and our suburbs for the last few decades, a rot dressed in earnest language about “community character,” “environmental review,” and “local control.” This... Read More

In the late 17th century, Isaac Newton published his “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy,” laying out three laws of motion that forever changed the way we understand the physical world. In classical physics — the... Read More

Humanism is a proud proponent of rationality, facts and research. Nevertheless, certainty can challenge itself quite readily as virtue even in societies that are not religious and are based on rationalism. This ambition to be... Read More

Blue light shined through the cracked door and the projector hummed as “The Polar Express” captivated my fifth-grade class. My classmates laughed and played, enjoying the Christmas party they had waited a year for. Outside,... Read More