Human

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether there is inherent value in human life more than any other kind of life.

To understand the remarkable moral, political and intellectual collapse of the pro-life movement, look to the Alabama Supreme Court, not…

In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell…

The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny…

The world’s leading institution on geology declined a proposal on Wednesday to confirm that the planet has entered a new…

A new study of camera-trap images complicates the idea that all wildlife thrived during the Covid lockdowns.

Mr. Musk says in his complaint that the company’s technology is now so good that it must be made freely…

War is on the rise everywhere. When the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London published its authoritative Armed Conflict…

Fifty years on, Ernest Becker’s “The Denial of Death” remains an essential, surprisingly upbeat guide to our final act on…

A fake Drake/Weeknd mash-up is not a threat to our species’s culture. It’s a warning: We can’t let our imaginations…