Robert Prevost's election as Pope brought hope to reformers. But will he push for peace and resist ultra-conservative influence?

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Peter Adamson runs the Munich School of Philosophy at Ludwig Maximillian University and is author of Philosophy in the Islamic World (Oxford University Press) ...

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There is a painting of the late Peter Higgs, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, that hangs in a science building at the University of Edinburgh. It shows him staring out with a pencil in ...

As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge As conflict wracks the globe, two exhibitions offer a powerful vision of our ...

Ecstatic states, the sense of a powerful truth others cannot see, emotions with the force of revelation. Religion and mental illness have a lot in common, says Robin Lawrence ...

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