Modernity seems to produce its own specific pathologies. These pathologies are present as global catastrophes, such as global wars, climate crises, and genocides, or as more “common” and almost ...

Muqtedar Khan teaches at the University of Delaware. He is a co-founder of the Delaware Council for Global and Muslim Affairs and is on Twitter. Updated December 6, 2015, 11:09 PM How can we wrap our ...

According to one popular account of the decline of Western Civilization, everything was humming along splendidly until the moderns came along and ruined it all. The Greeks, we are told, had ...

Is modernity inherently tragic? In this episode of The Global Connection, host Anna Sajecki speaks with Dr. Yoav Fromer, from the TAU School of Government of Diplomacy, about his course on Modernity ...

Steve: Welcome to the Scientific American podcast Science Talk posted on August 20th, 2012. I am Steve Mirsky. On this episode: Flynn: We have no idea of the gulf that separates our mind from people a ...

Man is a sovereign, self-governing and autonomous rational being. We, as humans, prefer to call ourselves conservative or are labeled as traditional by our society. We are afraid to accept a change or ...

On 5 December 1958, Harold Macmillan opened Britain's first stretch of motorway with a prediction. "In the years to come," the prime minister said, "the county and country alike may look at the ...