Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised ‘A ...

The nation’s water is secure, but its food is another matter: lessons from the city-state in efficiency versus ...

In his short documentary Their Eyes, the French filmmaker Nicolas Gourault spotlights the voices of several of these ...

An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of cooperation and competition For ...

It is by now well known that some of the greatest modern philosophers held racist views. John Locke (1632-1704), David Hume (1711-76), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), G W F Hegel (1770-1831) and many ...

Essays and videos on the oceans and water systems that sustain and shape all life on Earth, from marine ecosystems to desert ...

is professor of history at Texas A & M University, San Antonio. He is the author of Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest (2016). It was noon in early 1942 as Johann ...

Directed by the Afghan-born Canadian filmmaker Salar Pashtoonyar, Hills and Mountains recalls how the Soviet invasion of ...

I fell for physics because it offered a sense of order. Now I now its deep insight is how to accept the messiness of life ...

Serving as living metaphors, an artist’s self-contained miniature worlds show us the wondrous and fragile beauty of our ...

In 1869, the Baptist fundamentalist Cyrus Reed Teed reported his divine revelation that the Earth was hollow. At first glance, nothing novel. Jules Verne had explored a similar concept five years ...

is professor of philosophy at University College London. He is director of the MA in philosophy, politics and economics of health, co-director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre and co-director of ...