In the middle of the 20th century, philosopher-in-exile Hannah Arendt identified loneliness as a key factor in the ideologies that brought about so much of the time’s devastation. Now, in the 21st ...

In her new book, “The Ideological Brain,” the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod outlines what makes some people prone to rigid thinking. “Ideologies numb our direct experience of the world,” Leor Zmigrod, a ...

MONTHS after the declaration of martial law in September 1972, Ferdinand Marcos Sr. convened and invited intellectual giants ...

Ian Urquhart does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Conservative voters have slightly larger amygdalas than progressive voters—by about the size of a sesame seed. In a replication study publishing September 19 in the Cell Press journal iScience, ...