Spend a few minutes browsing political commentary or scrolling social media and you will discover a seemingly settled truth: ...

It runs deeply through the Western outlook, hailed and condemned in equal measures. For a corrective, look to Confucius ...

It marked a break from communal, hierarchical conceptions of society, where individuals were primarily defined ... creative genius and the civil liberties that define contemporary Western identity.

arguing that the core driver is the unprecedented freedom of women in contemporary Western societies. His recent book is available through Routledge Publishing.(Photo: Courtesy photo) A literary ...

Ann Telnaes, a long-term cartoonist for The Washington Post, decided to quit after one of her cartoons was censored by the newspaper [File: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais] On February 14, US Vice ...

Most of the work on happiness to date has involved Western societies that are not representative of the broader human experience. We wanted to assess the happiness of people who had less need for ...

Within Western societies, despite centuries of suppression, there are still traces of a past when third or fourth or more genders were recognized within many cultures and societies. In rare cases ...