One difference between guilt and shame, French philosopher Frédéric Gros points out in his book “A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion,” lies in how we understand their opposites. The absence ...

Cypriot officials announced the recent excavation of a long-forgotten sanctuary to Apollo, offering insights into ancient rituals and architectural expansions.

James Romm’s book is an intellectual thriller, showing how the ancient Greek thinker came to write “The Republic,” his ...

The curious minds at Aperture explore why a misunderstood ancient philosopher continues to shape modern thinking.

As a teenager in the 1970s, I worked on a typical dairy farm in England. Fifty cows grazed on lush pastures for most of their ...

Chief Earl Mills Jr., Mashpee Wampanoag, says: “You are guests on our land. Please leave it as you found it.” ...

Thanks to a recent blizzard of executive orders and late-night congressional maneuvers, the nation’s public lands have become ...

During the years after the Civil War, America embraced an economic philosophy called laissez-faire, celebrating the notion ...

There are wild stories, like him supposedly jumping into Mount ... and water. This idea from an ancient Greek philosopher from Sicily shaped science until modern chemistry finally arrived. Today we ...

Evidence of ancient Roman grooming tools can be found ... of Romans paying such close attention to their appearance. The philosopher Seneca, who lived in Rome during the first century A.D ...