Unthinkable: Not all rankings are worth paying attention to, but here’s one that is

Making sense of the 47th US president is not easy, but a 17th century philosopher could have the answer

Advice from philosophers, including don’t stop playing, and don’t over-invest in your children

Unthinkable: We’re all anti-globalist now: an idea of the left has became a rallying call of the right

Evidence of AI progress is mounting whereas humans ‘haven’t had a software update in 200,000 years’

Posts on X are channelling rage at the wokerati accused of being out to ban Christmas

Psychiatrist Rami Kaminski has identified a new ‘personality style’ but is it just a pleasing label for stubborn individualists?

Unthinkable: Resentment animates much of our political debate today. Here’s a three-point plan to tackle it

Policing language has damaged progressive causes - it’s time to retire the linguistic ‘harm hunters’

Unthinkable: Fact-checking isn’t enough to save democracy, we need logic-checking

Unthinkable: French philosopher René Girard developed a theory of scapegoating. The US vice president has weaponised it

Unthinkable: Many of us aspire to wealth, status and titles such as ‘president’, even when our vocation lies elsewhere

Should art be useful and retrain our brains or is it more important than that?

Plato throws down a challenge to us all on how to engage in free and open-ended public debate

Unthinkable: Philosopher Simone Weil died in 1943 aged 34, but she may have had the answer many of us are seeking