Articles in editorials
Humility is constantly in danger of subverting itself and turning into its own opposite. As a result, what appears to be humility may very easily be, or become, something radically different from humility.
The first cautionary note against Promethean science—the first hint that humility needed to get back in the picture—came with the atomic bomb.
What if we have evolved to do what’s best not for ourselves, but for the groups we live in?
Kalle Lasn considers what would happen if we had to pay the true cost for everything we buy.
Posthumanism challenges previous assumptions about the “different” character of animal consciousness and behavior. It aims to produce a theory which would displace humanism and substitute a sound ethical theory upon which to base human interactions with other species.
The treatment of peer-reviewed science as an unquestionable form of authority is corrupting the peer-review system and damaging public debate.
The Great Recession is not just an economic crisis, it is the result of a loss of values, a moral crisis. And to say that it is a moral crisis is also to say that it is a spiritual crisis.
Why, in their past lives, was everybody a princess or mighty warrior? Didn’t anybody dig ditches in the ancient world? Who took out the garbage? Who fed the elephants?
Laura Fitzpatrick of Time Magazine interviews Dr. Jeffrey Long, author of Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences.
