You’re a prisoner, held in a dark cave. Your hands are tied behind you and you can only look straight ahead at the cave wall. Your captors keep you occupied by putting objects on it. To pass the time ...

To Marshall Berman, the long platforms and barrel-vaulted ceilings of the Washington, D.C., subway system feel like a “theater of absurdity and cruelty.” The professor of political theory and urbanism ...

A sentiment echoes across the United States, and it stems from “the people.” Just last week, “the people” elected a president. How can we understand this political moment better? Let’s go back to ...

Imagine being raised from birth as a slave to a reality that never existed. That’s the idea in Book VII of Plato’s “Republic” (380 BC) in a conversation between Glaucon and his teacher Socrates who ...

Meeting people I’ve only ever seen in my Zoom physics classes. Meeting a celebrity after months of seeing them on social media. Finding out an online figure I followed for years is an abuser, a sex ...

Most people believe that self-awareness is important. Self-awareness partly involves recognizing that there are limits to our knowledge and understanding of things, making us open to considering ...