During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

Robert Paul Wolff, who recently died, understood that the state is incompatible with individual rights. While he faltered in ...

Argentinian writer Jorge Luís Borges wrote some of the world’s most brilliant, mind-bending, and philosophical stories.

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

The term mental hygiene has a long history in the United States, having first been used by William Sweetzer in 1843. After the Civil War, which increased concern about the effects of unsanitary ...