In recent months, “academic freedom” has been all over the news. A professor at Texas A&M University was asked to remove a ...
Aristotle, a pivotal ancient Greek thinker, profoundly influenced philosophy, science, and ethics. His emphasis on ...
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The useless disciplines

No academic discipline is inherently useless, arguesI have borrowed this title from Allan Douglas Galloway, a Scottish Professor of Theology who taught at University College Ibadan in the 1950s. At ...
Science moves fast, but it doesn't always start from scratch. Some of the most durable ideas in modern science trace back ...
Nobel laureates James Robinson, Joel Mokyr explored origins of the modern economy with Harris and Booth colleagues at recent ...
A funerary custom in Roman Yorkshire of pouring liquid gypsum over bodies before burial preserved traces of Tyrian purple ...
A shroud of mystery remains conceals the knowledge contained within the lost works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle.
In the dominant view of economics, individuals think primarily of themselves, seeking income to support a hectic lifestyle, and nature exists to be ...
Strength in engagement Every civilization leaves behind two kinds of architecture: monuments of stone and monuments of thought. The first endure as ruins; the second endure as arguments. What ...
Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of?
In November 1989, two watershed events changed the course of world history. The fall of the Berlin Wall would end the Cold ...