“The most incomprehensible thing about the Universe”, said Einstein, “is that it is comprehensible.” Why, for instance, are the laws of physics not so complex that they are forever beyond the grasp of ...

For Europeans, Libya is the closest edge of the African continent: a borderland imagined as both exotic and dangerous, a ...

Alex Gabriel is a twentysomething British graduate. He writes from a theoretical perspective on religion and how to leave it, popular rhetoric and political dissent, secular, nerd and LGBT cultures, ...

Peter Adamson runs the Munich School of Philosophy at Ludwig Maximillian University and is author of Philosophy in the Islamic World (Oxford University Press) ...

Jason Burke's history of "the extremists who hijacked the 1970s" is a rollicking tale – but also a cautionary fable ...

Ecstatic states, the sense of a powerful truth others cannot see, emotions with the force of revelation. Religion and mental illness have a lot in common, says Robin Lawrence ...

Robert Prevost's election as Pope brought hope to reformers. But will he push for peace and resist ultra-conservative influence?

As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge As conflict wracks the globe, two exhibitions offer a powerful vision of our ...

Walls – physical, digital, bureaucratic – are going up all over the world, dividing citizen from citizen. The very notion of citizenship is being questioned and restricted. India is no exception but ...

In her new book "Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter", Kat Hill follows a well-trodden path Our phones provide us with constant entertainment. What do we lose when we never sit alone with our thoughts?

Italy and the Vatican are central to a movement intent on imposing "traditional values" on European society ...