Edo, modern Tokyo, transformed from a city near ecological collapse to a thriving epicentre by creating a circular economy ...

Americans love to gamble. But placing bets on wildfires, floods and storms comes with serious moral and social costs ...

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I recently spent an evening trying to convince my father not to go back to Michoacán. I told him it wasn’t a good time. He reminded me that he’s been a naturalised US citizen since the George H W Bush ...

Everyone is panicking about the death of reading. The statistics look damning: the share of Americans who read for pleasure on an average day has fallen by more than 40 per cent over the past 20 years ...

Lansana Keita rejected Eurocentric ideas, tracing the philosophical tradition back to African Kemet or ancient Egypt ...

China’s regime insists on national unity and international harmony. Is this anything more than an imperial posture?

is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and a foreign cooperative researcher at Kyoto University in Japan. Marxism and Buddhism might not seem to have much in ...

is associate professor in philosophy at Durham University, UK. She writes on many topics but especially space, time and travel. Her most recent trade book is The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad ...