Topic: Friedrich Nietzsche

In Morocco, activists struggle to keep protest fervor alive

After tens of thousands protested on Feb. 20, 2011, Morocco's powerful king pushed through reforms. Two years later, activists say little has changed, and vow to face down threats and keep up pressure for a 'real' democracy.

Modern Parenthood Pew modern parenthood survey: Fathers caring more – at our house, too

Pew survey gives new picture of the hard work modern parenthood is. Dads are helping out – and worrying – more, just like moms. Pew could be describing our house.

Michel de Montaigne: 15 pithy quotes on his birthday

February 28th marks Michel de Montaigne's 480th birthday. Here, to celebrate, are some of his most enduring aphorisms. 

Backchannels Greece vs. Germany: Schlegel, Beckenbauer, Socrates, and other footballing greats

The Euro 2012 quarterfinal between Greece and Germany has been played before, thanks to Monty Python.

What It Is Like to Go to War

A Vietnam vet urges soldiers to talk more openly about what it means to fight.

The Guard: movie review

Odd-couple chemistry fizzles in US-Irish cop movie.

Opinion: Oprah Winfrey: The greatest existential philosopher ever?

Oprah Winfrey shares with the great existentialists an indomitable pursuit of two fundamental questions: Who are we? What can we become? And she has shed light on the possibility for a far more hopeful, productive answer to these questions than our traditional existential heroes.

The Unbelievers

What is most interesting about contemporary atheists is not what they have in common but rather their differences.

Arizona shooting suspect Jared Loughner: 5 of his strange ideas

Jared Lee Loughner is accused of killing six people and wounding 14 in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday. The apparent target of the attack was Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D), which led Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik to assert that unbalanced people are 'especially susceptible to vitriol' in our political discourse. Politics may be nasty, but Jared Lee Loughner's ideas don't seem to line up with any one group or line of thinking. Indeed, they are more often characterized as simply strange. Here’s a look at five ideas believed to come from Loughner, in his words and those of the people who know him.

City of Man: Politics and Religion in a New Era

Two journalists offer a political blueprint for a new crop of young Evangelicals.

Should your child be learning the art of slow reading?

As concerns grow that the Internet is making us intellectually shallow, some educators are rallying behind the slow-reading movement.

Can the lobbying industry be reformed?

There is little incentive for politicians to reform the lobbying industry when they are the ones to profit from it.

What not to read

Review: 'The Dark Knight'

The latest Batman movie is a relentlessly bleak take on the comic book, with a superb performance by Heath Ledger as the Joker.

Clean out space on your bookshelves with BookCrossing.com

For starters, leave your volumes of Tolstoy amid the toothpaste at Walgreens.

BookCrossing.com: Clean out space on your bookshelves

For starters, leave your volumes of Tolstoy amid the toothpaste at Walgreens.