AI can take over many writing tasks. But there is something irreplaceable about a text with an author standing behind it ...

Imagine two friends, Elena and Leo, are heading to a party. Leo asks Elena whether Sophie is already there. Elena answers: ‘Yes, she is at the party,’ because Sophie had told her earlier that she’d be ...

Last month, while clearing a drawer, I found a printout of André Breton’s ‘Manifesto of Surrealism’ (1924). The essay launched a movement that revolutionised art through beautiful, bizarre hybrids of ...

How much the sexes differ psychologically depends on how fair and wealthy a country is. But not in the way you’d think Surprisingly, researchers have sometimes found the opposite to be true: that ...

There’s an app that makes the world look filthier. By exposing germaphobes to their fears, it can help break the cycle ...

The great historian came of age at the end of British rule in India. Now 94, she continues to defy a regime determined to ...

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I grew up knowing the first day of deer-hunting season without ever looking at a calendar. In rural southern Indiana, the ...

Philip Pettit is the L S Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. A recent book, Just ...