One of the key themes of my new book, The Conservative Futurist: How To Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised, is that the state of our societal perception of the future is a subject of deep ...

The coil of human transformation is often wound tightly. And, as we have seen in the past, and once set in motion, insurmountable change is at hand. Certain epochs stand out, reshaping not just our ...

In popular history, the scientific revolution is often viewed to be due to the work of singular pioneers: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton. But as scholars in the history of science have argued, ...

It would probably come as a surprise to most readers in Europe and America that the Enlightenment spread all the way to Greece in the eighteenth century and spawned revolutionary movements in support ...

Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering by David A. Kessler Harper Wave, 2016 ($27.99; 416 pages) When American novelist David Foster Wallace delivered the commencement address at Kenyon ...

Long ago, before Westerners associated "enlightenment" with meditation or yoga, there was the Enlightenment: the philosophical revolution of the 1600s and 1700s that made the modern West. Before the ...

Enlightenment. The E word. The state of consciousness all spiritual seekers hope for. And yet wishing for enlightenment is a wonderfully paradoxical experience: craving the state of non-craving, ...