The rapid rise of AI exposes our dangerous history of elevating property rights over mutual obligation, writes Bruce Lundy ...

The US Capitol Building draw inspiration from ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The ideals of democracy first developed in ancient Greece helped inspire the political philosophy that shaped the ...

The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and established that all people are created equal.

Actors perform during a ceremony to commemorate the 2,576th anniversary of the birth of the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius in Qufu, East China's Shandong province, Sept 28, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

The founders took a different path. They were not hostile to religion. They knew the Bible well, proclaimed days of prayer and fasting, and often spoke of Providence. But they also absorbed the ...

Led by Soulaire Allerai, the New Age spiritual group promised its members community, purpose and spiritual growth. But to ...

Robert Thurman, who has died aged 84, was regarded as the first Westerner to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk; he subsequently became a leading scholar of Buddhism in America, helping to popularise ...

The American Revolution, with its spirit of 1776, was the culmination of over 100 years in which humans in the Western world ...

Wisdom gives us a better understanding of how to handle externalities. But, enlightenment gives us a better understanding of ...

What do you think of when you imagine the act of thought? Western culture’s quintessential image of intelligence—Auguste Rodin’s sculpture The Thinker—depicts one man alone with his thoughts. A more ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons/Johann Gottlieb Becker/Public Domain. In 1783, two years after the publication of his masterpiece, The Critique of Pure Reason, the 59-year-old Immanuel Kant could finally ...