Introduction: A Nation of Promise Held Back by Its Own Failures Ghana often feels like a bright lamp hidden under a heavy cloth .

The Stoic dichotomy treats betrayal like weather. Plato knew better: another person's choices flow from character—and ...

Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, an outbreak of anti-Macedonian feeling swept Athens, forcing Aristotle ...

I spent most of the past 15 years translating the complete works of Plato from Ancient Greek into English, and these ...

Everyone at the party was praising love, calling it beautiful and benevolent. Diotima says this cannot be the case. Love is ...

Many people mark the end of the ancient world with the fall of Rome in 476 AD — but some argue the true ending came in 529 AD ...

The series is now in production and set to air on BBC iPlayer and BBC One. It stars BAFTA nominated Josh Finan as Dan the ...

A paper on arXiv by researchers at the Icaro Lab in Italy has set off a firestorm of headlines. It begins with a reference to ...

Inger Kuin’s biography, despite its occasional pandering to twenty-first-century sensibilities, is an excellent place to ...

Further to my earlier letter titled, “Psychology of Greed and Philosophy for a New World Order” (The Island 26.11.2025) it ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

The Tony Award winner, who died on Nov. 29 at age 88 after being a staple of American Conservatory Theater for decades, wrote ...