Ideas Archives

(Vardan Harutyunyan)

Become This Delicate Skin of the Earth

When we each return to the earth, we can be secure in knowing that we are part of the grand planetary story, not separate from it.

(Andreas Klassen)

Our cultural institutions have the story backwards. Focus on well-being instead of achievement, and success will follow.

(Ben Mullins)

The SAT adversity score will be an inadequate remedy for a test that has been inequitable and dubious from the start.

(Zach Vessels)

Emotional labor is common to historically underpaid jobs held mostly by women. How will the rise of automation change the way it’s valued?

("Franciscan Monks in the Cloister of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli" by Jodocus Sebastiaen van den Abeele)

Medieval monks didn’t have smartphones but they had plenty of distractions. Here are a few ways in which they strengthened their focus.

(Jonathan Pielmayer)

The answer to whether complex civilizations or moralizing gods came first has significant ramifications for how we address social ills today.