One doesn't have to think hard to imagine climate protesters declaring that "I am morality itself and nothing else is moral!"

A novel approach to quantifying the slave trade.

“It seems to me that Ford did what would be the right thing according to your policy, and yet that seems to me to be very wrong.”

“Would it not be better to proceed by way of force rather than, in wishing to preserve the way of law, to lose the laws together with the state?”

Could or even should humanity spend 10,000 years deciding on its future? Some of Oxford’s leading professors seem to think so…

A grand narrative built on a shaky foundation.

Proposing a way to classify thinkers.

Talking about tragedy — in order to prevent the next one.

We have to be able to separate the literal and political interpretations of slogans; semiotics tells us how.

What does a Pixar film have to do with French literature? Quite a lot, it turns out.

What’s so fascinating about the Lombard warrior, whose tale was told by Jorge Luis Borges?