While considerable ink has been spilled describing how technology generally and applications such as Facebook and Twitter in particular reinforce tribalism, a curious related phenomenon has emerged ...

India, Jan. 24 -- Rationalism was meant to be a method, not an identity. It was to be the discipline of honest seeing, not another tribe of the like-minded. You question, you examine, you see clearly.

The triumph of the concept of rationalism, which lay at the center of the processes that formed our Western civilization from the 16 th century on, was not as swift or easy as it would seem to the ...

Positivism seems to be having a bit of a moment. To give just one example, last month, COMPACT ran a very interesting essay on Comte's "Religion of Humanity," a nineteenth-century version of a ...

The concept of biomimicry challenges our assumption that invention must always start from scratch. Instead it asks us to view ...

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One morning in the summer of 2015, I sat in a featureless office in Berkeley as a young computer programmer walked me through how he intended to save the world. The world needed saving, he insisted, ...