In a multicultural world, is there any way to tell right from wrong?

What's the price of putting a price on everything?

A new look at the life of the Greek thinker whose questions proved fundamental to Western philosophy.

A look at the company at the center of the Web, and the impact of its ubiquity on our lives.

Does philosophy help us to live well?

In his latest work, the author of Descartes' Error reconsiders some of his prior thinking about the mind and the brain.

The story of a German-Turkish railroad and Ottoman Empire's entry into World War I eerily foreshadows today's conflicts in the Middle East.

From the Stoics to the psychology lab, a quest to understand what makes us happy.

Memoir, history, and personal journey, this book about poetry and the Second World War is a telling, poignant, and singular testament.

Alison Gopnik pulls profound questions out of the minds of babes. Read more...

Retracing the young French thinker's steps, and thoughts, as he met a brave New World.

Cro-Magnon interlopers displaced the Neanderthals who once roamed over prehistoric Europe. What made them different?

A. C. Grayling on the quest to find the seat of wisdom in the brain.

The journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson reveal the committed, passionate writer at work.

A new work from a Nobel laureate may be the best account of how the global economy crashed -- and how it needs to be repaired. Read more...

An argument for the emerging dominance of the world's economy -- and culture -- by the most populous nation on the planet.

A new history of astronomy illuminates the wonders of the skies, and the contributions of those explore them with eyes, telescopes, and radio waves. Read more...

Why a chronicle of the struggle between two Mediterranean city-states still matters. Read more...

A visionary of human liberty or a self-serving cult mistress? The enigma of the author of The Fountainhead. Read more...

The counterintuitive history of the arms race, and the men who ran it -- largely in the dark. Read more...

A mind that leapt over the mysteries of physics, and a soul tormented by visions of failure. Read more...

A new book by Alison Gopnik pulls profound questions out of the minds of babes. Read more...

A. C. Grayling on a neuroscientist's attempt to "rewire her own brain." Read more...

Author Charlotte Greig writes in response to A.C. Grayling's column. Read more...

A new study of 17th-century English values reveals the roots of the modern world. Read more...

Jerry Coyne's case for the centrality of evolutionary theory is also a wonderful introduction to the subject. Read more...

Philosopher A.C. Grayling debuts his new column The Thinking Read. Read more...

The exuberantly inventive career of an Enlightenment genius. Read more...

From clay tablets to credit default swaps. Read more...

A life of the great British legislator and crusader against the slave trade. Read more...