I once exalted in the extraordinary. But as I’ve learned from Virginia Woolf, indelible beauty is also found in the everyday ...

A hero or a murderer? Stalin’s legacy is still a contentious issue in his birthplace, seven decades after his death ...

With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation ...

Can colour be understood geometrically? If so, what’s the best way to map it out, capturing the variables of hue, brightness and saturation? These questions have deep implications for art, physics and ...

In this layered portrait, an artist reflects on the complex reality of living with the distressing voice in her head ...

Life is often experienced as a demanding, ongoing story. But with a little practice, a new space opens for peaceful presence ...

Many hope that AI will discover ethical truths. But as Gödel shows, deciding what is right will always be our burden ...

Ascend steep cliffs to discover Ethiopia’s ancient churches carved into rock, still serving as places of worship today ...

Science Essays from Aeon. World-leading scientists and science writers explore topics from theories of evolution to theories of consciousness, quantum physics to deep time, chemistry to cosmology.

Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled?

We can all be inconsistent. Philosophy illuminates a bigger puzzle: how do we hold contradictory beliefs at the same time?

Happiness is not the same as a sense of meaning. How do we go about finding a meaningful life, not just a happy one?