The first sentence of Anna Karenina is now a literary cliché, yet contains a nub of truth. “All happy families,” writes Leo Tolstoy, “resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own ...

Even intelligent people fall victim to faulty thinking, especially when it comes to science. Some try to use it to validate ...

Biochemical evidence suggests Norse people settled in Iceland almost 70 years before the accepted arrival date of the 870s, ...

Sola fide is shorthand for the central issue of the Reformation, the material cause, which was the question of justification.

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

Constitutionally, we don’t legally expel people for their thoughts, but we can socially banish them.

The name Advent (From the Latin word Adventus, which signifies a coming) is applied, in the Latin Church, to that period of the year, during which the Church requires the faithful to prepare for the ...

As archaeologists slowly excavate this ancient statue from the earth, they are, in a sense, awakening a witness to humanity's earliest attempts to comprehend the cosmos and to communicate with the ...

The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet.

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

Taylor Tepper covered banking, investing and pretty much everything else in personal finance for more than a decade, with his work appearing in the New York Times, Fortune and MONEY magazine, as well ...

"The new research provides unprecedented details about the evolution of the Karnak Temple - from a small island to one of the ...