Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Director, Julia Unwin, suggests that underlying today’s social problems are our growing affluence, avarice, alienation and anger.
Is science opening the way to a new form of human spirituality that will transcend ancient ideas of a supernatural creator? Astronomer Nahum Arav seems to think so.
A successful space shuttle mission such as the recent Endeavor journey is a triumph of human ingenuity and inventiveness over the harsh elements of extraterrestrial travel.
Whatever his intentions and sources were, Edgar Allan Poe would probably be surprised by how well his ideas are borne out in modern cosmology’s story of the universe.
In his book Breeding Bin Ladens, Zachary Shore addresses whether Islamist extremism is bred rather than born. Is it produced by influence or by inheritance?
Infants need caretakers who demonstrate that they love them. Too many children suffer the consequences of complete neglect or dysfunctional family relationships.
Ishmael Beah was 12 years old when Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war reached his village in 1993. Soon he found himself swept up into the army, a child soldier.
Middle East scholar David Hulme interviews MK Effie Eitam, whose new proposal highlights cooperation between Israel, Jordan and Egypt in Middle East conflict.