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Philosopher Sebastian Morello makes the case for the political establishment of religion. Has the time finally come for conservatives to agree that this may be the only way out of our current moral morass?

Students and faculty gathered last week for a dialogue about sex, consent and philosophy between Manon Garcia and three philosophy and gender studies professors in advance of tomorrow’s U.S. release of her latest work.

A Yale architect is recognized as a star in his field, a quirky Broadway comedy nets Tonys for two Yalies, and a group of students create their own furnace.

Vulnerability, uncertainty and mutual respect can help build trust between students and universities. The process can include small actions such as open conversations in class and whole-institution programmes

Another Valley Guggenheim winnerNORTHAMPTON — Stephen Darwall, a philosophy professor at Yale University who lives in the Valley, has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, one of three winners from this region.Darwall, of Northampton, lives part time in New...

Darwall is one of just three philosophers to win the fellowship in 2023.

Why would the world’s richest man want to undermine the legitimacy of democracy itself?

NEW HAVEN  —  Why did Elon Musk purchase Twitter? His official answer, to defend free speech and democracy, is so unconvincing that the question will not go away. Musk’s repeated appeals to these ideals to justify important decisions he has made since taking over are so confounding that they raise deep suspicions about his motives.

Preserving democratic legitimacy thus means protecting a democratic information space – a domain of mutual trust in which citizens feel confident that they can debat...

It is difficult to estimate how many web pages created in 1993-1994 made it into the new millenium in their premordial way. If you manage to find something that was put online that time, it would in the best case display a 1995-1996 skin. But there is a way to find pages that live for ever in 1993.