Fantastic beasts and how to rationalize them 

A contemporary take on cryptids across cultures, myths, and shared fears

Wuthering Heights: the tragedy of Heathcliff

Obsession, social injustice, and the search for redemption in Emily Brontë’s dark masterpiece

How Australian war crimes shattered the Anzac myth

The murder accusations against Australia’s top soldier struck at the heart of the nation’s creation myth

Ramparts Magazine’s take on China

Ramparts’ depiction of China originally evoked promise for Leftist movements around the globe

​The lost art of conversation

Why endless messaging and social media may be weakening the deeper bonds built through conversation

The legal construction of racism in fascist Italy

Antisemitism, racial doctrine, and the marginalization of Italian Jews

Forms of storytelling: the narrative of the 21st century

A look at how storytelling techniques are used in an age dominated by innovative technology

It always begins with ice cream

On family traditions, quiet healing, and the sweetness that carries us home

Milan Kundera and the novel beyond good and evil

When storytelling reveals truth, not morality

The Sun rises every day

Today it dawned again, as always

Silena Santoni and the birth of a monster

Reimagining Mary Shelley’s “year without a summer” in My Creature

The jewel in the engine

Epistemic capital in an age of tactical noise

The living goddess of Kathmandu

How Nepal’s centuries-old Kumari tradition walks the line between sacred heritage and the rights of a child

Asimov’s psychohistory between determinism and freedom

Asimov’s “Foundation” saga explores how history balances destiny and human freedom while testing the power of science to shape the future

Graphophagy: the sacred power of ingesting text

Mystical and transformative power of writing in magic, religion, and healing

Untold and untaught history: pro-slavery ideology

Slavery remains an underexamined subject in American historical narratives

Lumbini: the birthplace of Buddha

A sacred sanctuary in Nepal where history, spirituality, and peace converge

The salvation of a question

Amin Maalouf on the indispensable role of literature, the convergence of art and business, and the critical path to a hopeful future

Rituals of survival in human culture

Dancing with death, laughing with life

Two paths of migration in South Korea and Australia

A comparative reflection on migration identity and inclusion

Why the Vietnamese New Year doesn’t start on January 1st

A closer look at the lunar calendar and how people in Vietnam experience time in their own way

Revolutions from the Enlightenment to Spain

The "longue durée" of American, Spanish and French revolutionary upheavals

Memories of Yorkshire: a journey through time

Reflecting on life in the west riding and beyond

The Pope who spoke and the Pope who hesitated

Moral courage, silence, and the Catholic church on the eve of the holocaust

Life in a Soviet mining town

Memories of Shakhtinsk, childhood freedoms, and the contradictions of promised futures

I’m looking: a nerdy philosophical on coupling

A guide for female philosophers and thinkers whose work resonates with Carl Jung’s depth psychology

Dickens’s critique of reason without imagination

Hard Times exposes the emotional, moral, and social costs of a world built on rigid rationality

Machiavelli’s conception of power and agency in 'The Prince'

The role of fortune in political success

The hidden circuits of speech

How metaphors encode repression, reveal unconscious truths, and guide us toward self-discovery

Too black for you, perfect for me

My journey of self-love and resilience as a black woman in America

Sabotaged by the machine, the crisis of human writing

Why writers and students are being falsely accused and what it means for creativity and trust