Runners do something utterly natural but they do it in a way that strikes us as superhuman.

How Americans lost faith in the possibility of self-government

The most distinctive characteristic of E.A.? The deftness with which it tiptoes past targets likely to offend billionaires.

Longtermists focus on ensuring humanity’s existence into the far future. But not without sacrifices in the present.

Amia Srinivasan’s book “The Right to Sex” asks difficult questions about who is deemed attractive and who isn’t.

After Trump’s election, Rorty’s prophecy of social collapse went viral. His final book is perhaps the clearest account of his political thinking.

A new anthology reveals the perils and rewards of philosophical fiction.

Police have adopted the same fundamental societal outlook as gun rights advocates: Arms are synonymous with law and order.

This crisis is revealing the limits of America's religious devotion to work—and showing us that a more fulfilling future is possible.

Are his principles for a just society enough today?

The Farm's Baby Boomer founders and its newest residents don't always see eye to eye about how to change the world.

The State Department wants to present its new human rights project as empirical and historical. But "natural law" is as political as anything else.

Some argue that bringing children into a decaying world is immoral.

A new book attempts to deepen the philosophical dimension of a revived left.

This wasn't some great multi-decade reckoning. It wasn't foreordained. It was a series of accidents.

Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, recently hired to manage the beleaguered tech giant's global affairs and communications, digs the liberal-utilitarian theorist.

President Trump and his critics are falling into camps very reminiscent of a classic philosophical debate of the 1970s: two different conceptions of moral duty.

Individual freedom and the public square

People don't change their minds based on facts. They need an alternate theory.

Fifty years on, the Czech philosophers of the Prague Spring have much to offer the current moment.