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Commentary by David Brooks: Imagination helps us try on other realities, experience other viewpoints. We should foster it, in the United States today.

This monograph argues for the adaptive function of storytelling and integrates traditional humanist scholarship with current knowledge about the evolved and adapted human mind.

Once the battles begin, it’s multiple rounds of knock-down, drag-out fights highlighted with the explosive, computer-generated destruction of Hong Kong. And, true fans of the Godzilla mythos are in for a real treat when a certain mechanized Titan shows up to the fight challenging both popular behemoths in a tag team royale. As with all Japanese-style monster movies, the humans mainly become collateral damage as the main events unfold, but a few are certainly notable here. They include young o...

This is the book cover of "Why We Need Religion" by Stephen T. Asma. The book is reviewed by David Gibson. (CNS) Help us expand our reach! Please share this article "Why We Need Religion" by Stephen T. Asma. Oxford University Press (New York, 2018). 256 pp., $29.95. Stephen Asma once was a Catholic altar boy. Today he calls himself an agnostic. He confesses he prayed when his son "was in the emergency room with an illness" but did not believe that prayer would help to heal him. "I, too, get re...

What People Say About 3QD "3 Quarks Daily is one of the most interesting and thoughtful websites out there." — Sean Carroll, physicist at Caltech, author. "3 Quarks Daily is one of the most interesting aggregator blogs out there. It puts together stuff from art, science, philosophy, politics, literature. It’s a completely international, cosmopolitan place to get information. It’s become my entry point to reading on the Web." — Mohsin Hamid, author of Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamenta...

In recent times there has been much talk about the imminent collapse of the liberal rules based order with Russia and China citied as the main culprits for this destabilisation. Combine this with COVID-19 pandemic and, as Dr Bobo Lo argues, nations have regressed into narrow self-interest. He believes that the real issue is a collective Western failure to live up to the principles of liberalism, a failure exacerbated by gross policy misjudgements and fraying transatlantic and European unity. H...