René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 ...

Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them ...

Cinematic shots of Californian farmland frame the stories of its immigrant workers, who live between precarity and hope ...

Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

A cherished local tradition keeps memories of the departed alight in this tiny village on England’s southwest coast ...

The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed ...

An engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe ...

Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music ...

Sheila was not alone in her disturbing experiences and her search for answers. By the early 1990s, numerous individuals had been coming forward in alarming numbers to say they feared they had been ...

Sarah Newman is an archaeologist and assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her research explores long-term human-environment interactions, including questions of waste and ...