While considerable ink has been spilled describing how technology generally and applications such as Facebook and Twitter in particular reinforce tribalism, a curious related phenomenon has emerged ...

E V Ramasamy, or 'Periyar', was commemorated across Tamil Nadu on his death anniversary for his pioneering role in social ...

The triumph of the concept of rationalism, which lay at the center of the processes that formed our Western civilization from the 16 th century on, was not as swift or easy as it would seem to the ...

Positivism seems to be having a bit of a moment. To give just one example, last month, COMPACT ran a very interesting essay on Comte's "Religion of Humanity," a nineteenth-century version of a ...

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2004.00276.x https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2004.00276.x When Nietzsche launched the postmodern attack on the ...

Join the three-day national science convention in Yadgir to celebrate rationalism and combat superstition, starting December ...

Late last year, when Luigi Mangione was arrested and charged with the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, something unexpected happened: A lot of people praised him for his actions, ...

Edward Krasiński is one of the most important sensual artists in the history of Poland – one of them who are non-militant and who conceptualize life… This difference is very important. It is as ...

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One morning in the summer of 2015, I sat in a featureless office in Berkeley as a young computer programmer walked me through how he intended to save the world. The world needed saving, he insisted, ...