Emrys Westacott argues that it’s not usually the hypocrisy itself that we hate. Hypocrisy has always had a bad press, going back at least to biblical times. But why? The near unanimous and often quite ...

Krishna Chaubey explains Arthur Schopenhauer’s poignant thought experiment. A hedgehog is a small mammal whose back is covered with quills. These sharp spines help the hedgehog in defending itself ...

Medha Ninad Tambe meditates on Rumi, love and self-negation. What does it mean to love? Is to be loved really to be known? Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273 CE), an eminent poet and mystic from ...

Massimo Pigliucci considers persona development. The ancient Romans already knew what Shakespeare would later proclaim: all the world’s a stage. But the Stoics took this metaphor seriously in a way ...