The future is on the way.  Leading-edge innovators, we are assured, have already moved on, and are earnestly focusing on the just the sort of problems - manufacturing, energy, transportation (and I'd add healthcare) - that urgently require imaginative solutions.

Denis Dutton is the founder and editor of the hugely popular website Arts & Letters Daily, named by the Guardian as the best website in the world. He also founded and edits the journal Philosophy and Literature and is a professor of philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury,...

Steven Pinker of Harvard University delivered the second of the 2003-2004 Bradley Lectures on October 7, 2003.

Why do American voters hold and cherish irrational beliefs on politics and economics?

A review of The Ethical Brain, by Michael S. Gazzaniga.

Biomedical science and technology pose contemporary challenges to our human dignity.

Jon Entine talks about his recent book, Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People, which focuses on the history of Jews all over the world in combination with their DNA structure.