One day, quoting the renowned thinker Bertrand Russell, he remarked, “Politics is a dirty game for the rascals, not for the ...

Language can function only because there are public criteria for acceptable usage.

In 1951, during the rise of McCarthyism, philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote an article titled "The Best Answer to Fanaticism-Liberalism" in The New York Times Magazine. It reads like it could have ...

First they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent.” —Philosopher Bertrand Russell explaining the rise of ...

As I often tell my son, "Smart people persuade; angry people fight and shout." Bertrand Russell put it another way: "I believe in using words, not fists." Years of experience in marketing, often for ...

Joshua Creamer delivers the 2024 Dr Charles Perkins Oration; Professor Anna Goldsworthy delivers the Boyer Lecture 2024.

The Psycho-Spiritual Institute (PSI) has been given licence by the National Universities Commission to award postgraduate diploma in Psycho-Spiritual Trauma Healing and Master’s degree in Psycho ...

But there is no inoculation against depression. There is no set of words that can wipe away anxieties for good. “Walk and ...

JNU scholar and Essex University Fellow Ruchika Sharma’s trial on X isn’t the only one. But it is symptomatic of a larger ...

In 1927 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Though Bergson’s philosophy can be abstruse—an impatient Bertrand ...

Cool Girl” writers like Joan Didion and Eve Babitz have been endlessly marketed to women. But what truths might men learn about women—and themselves—from these books?

He clashed publicly with prominent atheists, including Richard Dawkins, and gave testimony in a famous court case in Arkansas ...