By virtue of pure chance, a monkey can come up with Romeo and Juliet. This suggests that we can circumvent comprehension and skip straight to competence.

In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rey and Kylo Ren share a telepathic bond forged by the Force, brilliantly illustrating Douglas Hofstadter's "Strange Loop" theory of the self.

Debates about the moral value of biodiversity are longstanding in the world of environmental ethics, and the issue is far from settled.

Regulations banning performance-enhancing drugs raise as many questions as they answer.

"White Bear," an episode of the television show Black Mirror, documents the cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on the protagonist, an amnesiac.

We choose products and services partially based on how they make us feel, on meanings we derive from our choices.

When is speech violence? Sometimes. It depends. That’s a complicated question.

At the beginning of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a coin toss lands as heads 92 times in a row, the odds of which are a mere 1 in 5 octillion.

The philosopher inspired a whole generation of American queer theorists.

When tragedies strike, it is through photographs, rather than think pieces and reportage that the reader can see the sheer scale of the problem.