The lessons of Socrates have never really gone out of style, but if there’s ever a perfect time to revisit the ancient philosopher, now is it. In “How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a ...

What image does the word philosopher conjure? Maybe Socrates, bearded and barefoot, counseling Plato on the agora; Rousseau on one of his solitary walks around the outskirts of Paris; Sartre sucking ...

Do you find that walking helps to clear your mind in addition to tiring out your legs? You’re not alone. While many of us get out in our hiking boots because hiking is good exercise, many famous ...

Some forms of critical evaluation and philosophical thinking are hard because they force us to suspend other habits of mind that serve us well... As an undergraduate, I majored in philosophy — a ...

The Sonoran Desert, which covers much of the southwestern United States, is a vast expanse of arid earth where cartoonish entities—roadrunners, tumbleweeds, telephone-pole-tall succulents—make ...

The full-length interview with the British philosopher and educator Peter Cave, focusing on four thinkers profiled in his new book: Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Arendt. Peter Cave, How to Think Like a ...

Penaluna, who grew up in Iowa and completed much of her postgraduate education there, left academia following a stint as a professor at St John’s University in Queens, New York, after which time she ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Holly Davis didn’t believe in luck until she realized just how unlucky she ...

When Italian philosopher and essayist Andrea Colamedici released Ipnocrazia: Trump, Musk e La Nuova Architettura Della Realtà (Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality), he wanted ...