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

Radiant revelry: the Nagasaki Lantern Festival

A celebration of Chinese culture illuminating Japan’s history

Valmiki Jayanti: celebrating the birth of the Adi Kavi

Honoring the birth of Sage Valmiki, author of the Ramayana, and his enduring cultural, spiritual, and literary influence

Dissolved in an unexpected feeling of existence

The infinite multitude of living forms, the cosmos, and the stories that surround us

Designing the future of becoming

How civilizations evolve from substitution to enablement

Jane Goodall and the silence on population

Remembering an uncomfortable truth

The allure of strong women: the beauty

The changing shapes of feminine aesthetics

Isaac Asimov’s 'History of the Future'

Ethics, psychohistory, and the making of humanity’s tomorrow

Untold and untaught history: a complex bond

The intricate relationship between enslaved people and the slave owners

The Klender experiment and Japan’s forgotten war crime

How a routine injection became a hidden wartime experiment in occupied Indonesia

Liberty and the human condition

A journey through faith, reason, and conscience