Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others?

Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls ...

The testimonies of Ukraine’s war widows reveal the mortal risk of love and the possibility of dying while alive: a black pain ...

In many cultures, peacocks are considered symbols of good fortune, beauty and power. In Arcadia, California, however, many locals view these birds as a nuisance. In the late 19th century, a handful of ...

I’m standing on a beach at Workington, on the western edge of the Lake District in England. Here I find myself contemplating a very unnatural object, while pondering a pretty fundamental question: ...

What does it mean to live an authentic life? This is a question that a man who goes by the name of Hat has had plenty of time to contemplate, since he left his previous identity and a comfortable yet, ...

Born into an elite Japanese family, the photographer Akihiko Okamura (1929-85) was an unlikely candidate to become one of the most perceptive chroniclers of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. A ...

The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion ...

Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique ...

From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse. But it names something real – and must be reclaimed ...