In recent years, the world has witnessed conflicts, wars, and violence unfolding almost daily. Images of destruction and human suffering travel instantly across screens and social media feeds. Yet, a...

We are living in uneasy times. Tensions are rising around the world. Nations speak the language of self-defence, deterrence, nationalism, and progress. Some concerns are real and rooted in national...

Some no longer believe there is a God. Others feel that even if He exists, He does not interfere in human affairs. In a world filled with suffering, violence, and...

Across much of the world, religion is quietly losing its grip on younger generations. Compared to their parents and grandparents, today’s youth are far less likely to belong to an...

For decades, we believed that each new generation was smarter than the one before it. Better education, improved nutrition, and modern living were thought to steadily increase human intelligence. Today,...

For the first time in human history, humanity has been jolted awake by a shared and urgent alarm: the need to work together to prevent the destruction of nature itself....

Every major technological shift arrives with excitement, excess, and anxiety. In the late 1990s, the Internet triggered the dot-com bubble, an era of speculation that ended in collapse but ultimately...

Human beings have always been a migratory species. From our earliest origins in Africa, humanity spread across continents in search of food, safety, opportunity, and dignity. For most of history,...

There is an idea that may sound controversial at first: we do not really “come into” this world, but rather come out of it. Like trees, rivers, animals, and soil,...

The debate over whether democracy is the best form of government has persisted for centuries. It involves weighing the ideals of popular rule against the practical shortcomings seen in real-world...