Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s ...

It’s the theorem every mathematician believes in — yet no one can prove it. For decades, the brightest minds have tried and failed to explain why something so clearly true sits forever beyond reach.

The originalist fallacy that dominates the current Supreme Court—the pretense that it is possible to read the minds of the ...

The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s ...

The First Amendment – and the freedom of speech it guarantees – is considered a fundamental element of American freedom and ...

The upshot was frightening. Paradoxically individual freedom could end up being more restricted under mass democracy than under the despotic sovereigns of yore. Mill famously refers to this as ...

With eight years of experience as a financial journalist and editor and a degree in economics, Elizabeth Aldrich has worked on thousands of articles within the realm of banking, economics, credit ...

From the earliest days, mathematics has typically received a hallowed treatment from those who have studied it. Plato, who studied a special set of five three-dimensional shapes now known as the ...