May 3, 2024
People deeply want to believe they are good, reasonable and worthy. A little humility and curiosity can go a long way toward helping someone feel respected during an argument.
September 28, 2023
With Donald Trump absent again, Republican presidential hopefuls took potshots at each other but agreed that Bidenomics isn’t cutting it.
September 24, 2023
Emmanuel Destenay, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Opposition forces in France are using the president’s unpopularity to push for a new constitution. It’s a dangerous game.
May 22, 2023
Matthieu P. Boisgontier, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa and Boris Cheval, Université de Genève
One genetic study of over a quarter million people highlights the cognitive benefits of exercise, while another, based on 30 years of scientific literature, says the opposite. Who’s right and who’s wrong?
May 18, 2023
Ryan Leack, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Ancient Greek philosophers despised the Sophists’ rhetoric because it searched for relative truth, not absolutes. But learning how to do that thoughtfully can help constructive debates.
May 1, 2023
Immanuel Kant’s ideas about respect are still important today, in a world where social media and echo chambers make manipulation easy.
March 17, 2023
Michel Wieviorka, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France
France’s trade unions have managed to galvanise the largest movement in decades in opposition to pension reform. What will happen to them once the bill has been passed or abandoned?
February 20, 2023
An international legal expert explains why the Greeks are right to be wary of the British Museum’s offer to loan them the Parthenon marbles.
December 7, 2022
With the discovery of several thousand new pages of Hegel’s lecture notes, fans are hoping his famously tricky philosophy may become easier to understand – this expert isn’t so sure.
August 25, 2022
Charlotte M. Canning, The University of Texas at Austin
The Chautauqua movement symbolized progressive reformers’ hopes that public learning could create a healthy democracy.
May 24, 2022
Florent Parmentier, Sciences Po and Florent Marciacq, Centre international de formation européenne
Inspired by François Mitterrand’s idea of a European confederation, French president Emmanuel Macron has outlined the idea of a political body that would be separate from the EU.
October 15, 2021
Movements that challenge former national icons demonstrate the importance of history-making in an age of racial reconciliation. But ‘history wars’ won’t get us anywhere.
January 20, 2021
Despite moments of hope, worries about the present and fears that the future may be even worse have been rising for decades. What can geopolitics teach us about the global impact of fear?
December 7, 2020
For science to be open, one can reasonably think that it would have to use open software. However, being completely open is not that easy.
October 6, 2020
Bullying tactics are increasingly under scrutiny, yet the display we saw during the first U.S. presidential debate is proof that some men still think those old rules are still at play.
September 30, 2020
Alison Gash, University of Oregon; Alexander Cohen, Clarkson University, and Rashawn Ray, University of Maryland
They shouted, they interrupted, they insulted – and not entirely in equal measure. But Biden and Trump also touched on the issues occasionally. Our panel of experts analyzed three key exchanges.
June 18, 2020
Dirk S. Schmeller, Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier
All animals plays a role in nature, and in times of biodiversity loss and climate change, hunting “common” species such as foxes and badgers is irresponsible .
April 30, 2020
March 19, 2020
Three new approaches in the field of competitive academic debate offer ideas that could help presidential debates serve both their public purposes.
February 25, 2020
The Jordan Valley, which US president Donald Trump has proposed integrating into Israel, has been transformed by the introduction of date palms, emptying it of its Palestinian inhabitants.
